page_title: Arthropods associated with sloths
hierarchical_section_title: Arthropods associated with sloths
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Braunkehl-Faultier (Bradypus variegatus), Gatunsee, Republik Panama English: Three-toed-sloth (Bradypus variegatus), Lake Gatun, Republic of Panama. Français&#160;: Paresseux à gorge brune (Bradypus variegatus), Lac Gatun, République de Panama. Українська: Трипалий лінивець, Панама
context_page_description: A large number of arthropods are associated with sloths. These include biting and blood-sucking flies such as mosquitoes and sandflies, triatomine bugs, lice, ticks and mites. The sloth’s fur forms a micro-ecozone inhabited by green algae and hundreds of insects. Sloths have
  a highly specific community of commensal beetles, mites and moths.
  Species of sloths recorded to host arthropods include:
  Pale-throated three-toed sloth Bradypus tridactylus
  Brown three-toed sloth Bradypus variegatus
  Linnaeus's two-toed sloth Choloepus didactylus
  The large variety of arthropods associated with sloths comprise two distinct feeding guilds – the haematophagous guild, represented by biting flies, mites, and ticks, and the coprophagous guild which comprises a unique assemblage of moths and beetles which utilize the sloth principally for phoresis and whose larval stages feed and develop in the dung of the host sloth.
context_section_description: A large number of arthropods are associated with sloths. These include biting and blood-sucking flies such as mosquitoes and sandflies, triatomine bugs, lice, ticks and mites. The sloth’s fur forms a micro-ecozone inhabited by green algae and hundreds of insects. Sloths have 
  a highly specific community of commensal beetles, mites and moths.
  Species of sloths recorded to host arthropods include: 
  Pale-throated three-toed sloth Bradypus tridactylus
  Brown three-toed sloth Bradypus variegatus
  Linnaeus's two-toed sloth Choloepus didactylus
  The large variety of arthropods associated with sloths comprise two distinct feeding guilds – the haematophagous guild, represented by biting flies, mites, and ticks, and the coprophagous guild which comprises a unique assemblage of moths and beetles which utilize the sloth principally for phoresis and whose larval stages feed and develop in the dung of the host sloth.
caption: Brown three-toed sloth
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