Species Argas australiensis Kohls & Hoogstraal, 1962

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• Argas (Carios) australiensis Kohls, G.M. & Hoogstraal, H. 1962. Bat ticks of the genus Argas (Ixodoidea, Argasidae). 4. A. (Carios) australiensis n. sp. from Australia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 55: 555-559.

Introduction

The species Argas vespertilionis (Latreille) has been recorded from Australia by a number of authors, including Taylor (1911), Ferguson (1925) and Fielding (1926). The identity of these specimens has not been confirmed, and it is possible that they represent Argas australiensis (see Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1962). This uncertainty led Hoogstraal et al. (1968) to record them as the "Argas vespertilionis group". Hoogstraal (1956) also referred to the presence of the Argas vespertilionis group in Australia. These records are here considered provisionally as C. australiensis until adults can be reared to confirm their identity.

General References

Barker, S.C., Walker, A.R. & Campelo, D. 2014. A list of the 70 species of Australian ticks; diagnostic guides to and species accounts of Ixodes holocyclus (paralysis tick), Ixodes cornuatus (southern paralysis tick) and Rhipicephalus australis (Australian cattle tick); and consideration of the place of Australia in the evolution of ticks with comments on four controversial ideas. International Journal for Parasitology 44: 941-953. (as Argas (Carios) australiensis)

Camicas, J.-L., Hervy, J.-P., Adam, F. & Morel, P.C. 1998. Les Tiques du Monde (Acarida, Ixodida). Paris : Orstom 233 pp. (as Carios (Carios) australiensis)

Ferguson, E.W. 1925. Australian ticks. The Australian Zoologist 4: 24-35 (as Argas vespertilionis)

Fielding, J.W. 1926. Australasian ticks. Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health, Service Publication (Tropical Division) 9: 1-114 (as Argas vespertilionis)

Hoogstraal, H. 1956. African Ixodoidea. I. Ticks of the Sudan. Cairo, Egypt : US Navy Medical Research Unit No 3. 1101 pp. (as Argas (Carios) vespertilionis group)

Hoogstraal, H., Kaiser, M.N. & Kohls, G.M. 1968. The subgenus Persicargas (Ixodoidea, Argasidae, Argas). 4. Argas (P.) robertsi, new species, a parasite of Australian fowl, and keys to Australian argasid species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61: 535-539 (as Argas (Carios) australiensis)

Hoogstraal, H. & Kohls, G.M. 1962. Bat ticks of the genus Argas (Ixodoidea, Argasidae). 5. Description of larvae from Australian and New Guinea Carios-group populations. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 87: 275-280 (as Argas (Carios) australiensis)

Hoogstraal, H. & Kohls, G.M. 1965. Bat ticks of the genus Argas (Ixodoidea, Argasidae). 6. The female and larva of A. (Carios) australiensis. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 58: 816-820 (as Argas (Carios) australiensis)

Klompen, J.S.H. & Oliver, J.H. 1993. Systematic relationships in the soft ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Argasidae). Systematic Entomology 18: 313-331 (as Carios australiensis)

Roberts, F.H.S. 1970. Australian Ticks. Melbourne : CSIRO 267 pp. (as Argas australiensis)

Taylor, F.H. 1911. Report of the Entomologist. Reports of the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine 1911: 49-74 pls XII-XIV (as Argas vespertilionis)

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