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Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) azteci
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Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) azteci
Ornithodoros (A.) azteci has been collected from bats in Trinidad (Cooley and Kohls 1944; Fairchild et al. 1965; Kohls 1969). This species was also found on vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus rotundus) from Croney Cave, Diego Martin in 1958 and from Lonchorhina aurita, Paromin, Maraval from Trinidad in 1960 (Kohls et al. 1965).
Distribution: Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Islands of the Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela (Kohls et al. 1965; Cruz 2001).
Notes
Published as part of Basu, A. K., Basu, M. & Adesiyun, A. A., 2012, A Review On Ticks (Acari: Ixodoidea: Ixodidae, Argasidae), Associated Pathogens And Diseases Of Trinidad And Tobago, pp. 39-50 in Acarologia 52 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20122034, http://zenodo.org/record/4667077
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Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Ixodida
- Family
- Argasidae
- Genus
- Ornithodoros
- Species
- azteci
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Cooley R. A., Kohls G. M. 1944 - The argasidae of North America, Central America, and Cuba - Amer. Midland Nat. Monogr. N ° 1: pp. 152.
- Fairchild G. B., Kohls G. M., Tipton V. J. 1965 - The ticks of Panama (Acarina: Ixodoidea). The Ectoparsites of Panama - R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co., Chicago.
- Kohls G. M. 1969 - A new species of Amblyomma from iguanas in the Caribbean (Acarina: Ixodidae) - J. Med. l Entomol., 6: 439-442.
- Kohls G. M., Sonenshine DE, Clifford C. M. 1965 - The systemics of the subfamily Ornithodorinae (Acarina: Argasidae). II. Identification of the larvae of the Western Hemisphere and descriptions of three new species - Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am., 58 (3): 331-364.
- Cruz J. O. de la 2001 - Patterns in the Biogeography of West Indian Ticks [Internet] - In: Woods C. A. and Sergile F. E. (Eds). Biogeography of West Indies. CRC Press. Available from (http: // www. crcnetbase. com / doi / abs / 10.1201/97814 20039481. ch 7)