Argas
Encyclopedia
Argas is a genus
of tick
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of tick
Tick
Ticks are small arachnids in the order Ixodida, along with mites, constitute the subclass Acarina. Ticks are ectoparasites , living by hematophagy on the blood of mammals, birds, and sometimes reptiles and amphibians...
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Species
- Argas abdussalami Hoogstraal & McCarthy, 1965
- Argas acinus Whittick, 1938
- Argas africolumbae Hoogstraal, Kaiser, Walker, Ledger, Converse & Rice, 1975
- Argas arboreus Kaiser, Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1964
- Argas assimilis Teng & Song, 1983
- Argas beijingensis Teng, 1983
- Argas beklemischevi Pospelova-Shtrom, Vasil'eva & Semashko, 1963
- Argas brevipes Banks, 1908
- Argas brumpti Neumann, 1907
- Argas bureschi Dryenski, 1957
- Argas canestrinii Birula, 1895
- Argas cooleyi Kohls & Hoogstraal, 1960
- Argas cooleyi McIvor, 1941
- Argas cucumerinus Neumann, 1901
- Argas dalei Clifford, Keirans, Hoogstraal & Corwin, 1976
- Argas delanoei Roubaud & Colas-Belcour, 1931
- Argas dulus Keirans, Clifford & Capriles, 1971
- Argas eboris Theiler, 1959
- Argas echinops Hoogstraal, Uilenberg & Blanc, 1967
- Argas falco Kaiser & Hoogstraal, 1974
- Argas foleyi Parrot, 1928
- Argas giganteus Kohls & Clifford, 1968
- Argas gilcolladoi Estrada-Peña, Lucientes & Sánchez, 1987
- Argas hermanni Audouin, 1827
- Argas himalayensis Hoogstraal & Kaiser, 1973
- Argas hoogstraali Morel & Vassiliades, 1965
- Argas japonicus Yamaguti, Clifford & Tipton, 1968
- Argas keiransi Estrada-Peña, Venzal & González-Acuña, 2003
- Argas lagenoplastis Froggatt, 1906
- Argas lahorensis Neumann, 1908
- Argas latus Filippova, 1961
- Argas lowryae Kaiser & Hoogstraal, 1975
- Argas macrostigmatus Filippova, 1961
- Argas magnus Neumann, 1896
- Argas miniatus Koch, 1844
- Argas monachus Keirans, Radovsky & Clifford, 1973
- Argas monolakensis Schwan, Corwin & Brown, 1992
- Argas moreli Keirans, Hoogstraal & Clifford, 1979
- Argas neghmei Kohls & Hoogstraal, 1961
- Argas nullarborensis Hoogstraal & Kaiser, 1973
- Argas peringueyi Bedford & Hewitt, 1925
- Argas persicusArgas persicusArgas persicus, fowl tick or poultry tick is a small soft-bodied tick that is found primarily on chickens and other domestic fowl. It was first recorded by Lorenz Oken in 1818 in Mianeh, Persia, and named Rhynochoprion persicum.A...
Oken, 1818 - Argas peusi Schulze, 1943
- Argas polonicus Siuda, Hoogstraal, Clifford & Wassef, 1979
- Argas radiatus Railliet, 1893
- Argas reflexus Fabricius, 1794
- Argas ricei Hoogstraal, Kaiser, Clifford & Keirans, 1975
- Argas robertsi Hoogstraal, Kaiser & Kohls, 1968
- Argas sanchezi Dugès, 1887
- Argas streptopelia Kaiser, Hoogstraal & Horner, 1970
- Argas striatus Bedford, 1932
- Argas theilerae Hoogstraal & Kaiser, 1970
- Argas transgariepinus White, 1846
- Argas tridentatus Filippova 1961
- Argas vansomereni Keirans, Hoogstraal & Clifford, 1977
- Argas vulgaris Filippova, 1961
- Argas walkerae Kaiser & Hoogstraal, 1969
- Argas zumpti Hoogstraal, Kaiser & Kohls, 1968