| Term | Definition |
| burrowing mite | Sarcoptes scabiei var. canis |
| cat mite | Notoedres cati |
| dog mite | Demodex canis |
| walking dandruff | Cheyletiella sp. |
| chiggers/harvest mites | Trombiculid mites |
| ear mites | Otodectes cynotis |
| hookworm-cats&dogs (ecto or endo) | Ancylostoma sp. |
| heartworm | D. immitis |
| cat flea | Ctenocephalides felis |
| Dog flea | Ctenocephalides canis |
| stick tight flea | Echidnophaga gallinacea |
| sucking lice-ruminants | Lingognathus setosus |
| biting lice - dog | Trichodectes canis |
| biting lice - cat | Felicola subrostratus |
| Flesh fly & Blow fly | myiasis producing (feed on necrotic tissue) |
| Bot fly/Warbles | Cuterebra spp. |
| Brown Dog tick | Rhiphicephilus sanguineus |
| American dog tick | Dermacentor variabilis |
| Deer tick | Ixodes spp. |
| short nosed lice | Hematopinus eurysternus |
| tail louse | Hematopinus quadepertasus |
| long nosed louse | Linognathus ritoli |
| blue louse | Solenoptes capillatus |
| foot louse - sucking lice in ruminant | Linognathus pedalis |
| biting lice | Damalina bovis/capre/ovis |
| house fly | Musca domestica |
| face fly | Musca autumnalis |
| horse fly | Tabanus sp. |
| deer fly | chrysops sp. |
| stable fly | stomoxys calcitrans |
| mosquitoes-ruminants | Culex sp/ Aedes sp |
| black fly/buffalo gnat/midge | Simuluim sp. |
| black gnat/"no-see-ums" | Culicoides sp. |
| sheep keds | Melophagus |
| Flesh Flies-cats&dogs | Sarcophaga sp |
| Blow flies | Lucilia sp |
| Screw worm fly | Cochliomyia sp. |
| warbles | Hypoderma bovis |
| warbles (Heel fly) | Hypoderma lineatum |
| mites | Psoroptes ovis/ Sarcoptes scabiei var. bovis,ovis,capris/ Psorergates sp/ Demodex sp. |
| Foot or Red mange | chorioptes sp. |
| Spinous ear tick-ruminant | Otobius megnini |
| Ticks | Boophilus annulatus/ Boophilus microplus/ Dermacentor sp./ Amblyomma americanum/ Ixodes sp. |
| Helminth parasites - ruminants | Stephanofilaria |
| biting louse | Damalina equi |
| sucking louse | Haematopinus asini |
| horn fly | Haematobia irritans |
| uncommon horse fly | Hypodermia spp. |
| one of most common ticks on horses | Dermacentor Albipictus |
| Horse tick - not as common | Otobius megnini |
| Mites | psoroptes/chorioptes/demodex equi, sarcoptes scabiei var equi |
| non pruritic tick in horses | pyemotes tritici |
| summer sore- horses | Habronema sp. |
| pinworm | Oxyuris equi |
| equine bots | gastrophalus |
| helminths with microfilaria-horses | Onchocerca cervicalis |
| round worm - dog | Toxocara canis |
| round worm - cat | Toxocara cati |
| round worm - dog & cat | Toxascaris leonina |
| hook worm - dog | ancystoma conium |
| whip worm - dog (NEVER in cats) | Trichuris vulpis |
| Lung worm-lung worm | Capillaria aerophila |
| Rodent Liver worm -in dogs & cats | Capillaria hepatica |
| Bladder worm | Capillaria plica |
| common tapeworm | Dipylidium caninum |
| dog tapeworm | Taenia pisiformis |
| Lung fluke - dog | Paraonimus kellicotti |
| barber pole worm | Hemonchus contortus |
| tape worm - ruminant | Monezia sp |
| liver fluke - cattle | Fasciola hepatica |
| round worm - horse | Parascaris equorum |
| large/small strongyles | Strongylus sp. |