CUIC Holdings CUIC -Information pages CUIC Holdings Acari Acari. The mite and tick collection includes over 6300 slide-mounted specimens and 8000 vials. A general collection of Acari was initiated only in 1970, in connection with a course in systematic acarology previously taught by G.C. Eickwort, and its use as a systematic resource is quite recent. Slide-mounted materials are identified to family or, in the case of economically important taxa, to genus or species. All major families and most minor families are represented.
Representation is strongest from New York.
The collection is particularly strong in vertebrate and arthropod parasites. Of more significance are the special collections that have been deposited in association with research by faculty and students at Cornell.