"= acarine", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. From scientific Latin Acarus + -ian. perhaps after French acarien (1833 or earlier as noun (chiefly in plural acariens), 1842 or earlier as adjective).
"Infestation, especially of the skin, with mites or ticks; disease resulting from such infestation; an instance of this", Early 19th cent.; earliest use found in William Kirby (1759–1850), entomologist and naturalist. From acarus or its etymon post-classical Latin acarus + -iasis.