Africaniella transversale
| Africaniella transversale | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Ixodida |
| Family: | Ixodidae |
| Genus: | Africaniella Travassos Dias, 1974 |
| Species: | A. transversale
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| Binomial name | |
| Africaniella transversale (Lucas, 1845)[1]
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Africaniella transversale is a species of tick. It is native to the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands of Africa, where it feeds on boas and bovids.[2][3] It is one of two species currently of the genus Africaniella.
Systematics and morphology
Africaniella transversale is characterised by a suboval, very wide body profile; an indistinct anal groove; long, rounded triangular coxae; and in the male, broad triangular cornuae.[3] The species is similar to Africaniella orlovi – there is some ambiguity as to whether the two species should be considered synonymous, due to the poor description of Kolonin, who initially described A. orlovi from Vietnam, where it is not present.[4][5]
Distribution
Some records suggest Africaniella transversale is present in the Palearctic realm, but the likelihood that it is established outside the Afrotropical realm is low. There is some evidence the species is able to infest non-Afrotropical hosts, however.[6]
References
- ^ Lucas, M. H. (1845). Sur une nouvelle espèce d'Arachnide qui appartient au genre Ixodes, et qui vit dans le contour interne de la cavité orbitaire de Python sebae, Duméril et Bibron (Coluber sebae, Gmelin). In Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Série (Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 61–65).
- ^ Guglielmone, Alberto A.; Petney, Trevor N.; Robbins, Richard G. (2020-11-05). "Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019". Zootaxa. 4871 (1): 1–322. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ a b Hornok, Sándor; Kontschán, Jenő; Takács, Nóra; Chaber, Anne-Lise; Halajian, Ali; Abichu, Getachew; Kamani, Joshua; Szekeres, Sándor; Plantard, Olivier (2020-11-01). "Molecular phylogeny of Amblyomma exornatum and Amblyomma transversale, with reinstatement of the genus Africaniella (Acari: Ixodidae) for the latter". Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 11 (6) 101494. doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2020.101494. ISSN 1877-959X.
- ^ Kolonin, G.V.. (2003). New data on ixodid tick fauna of Vietnam. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 82. 1019–1021.
- ^ Kolonin, G. V. (1992). "Aponomma orlovi sp. n.--a new species of ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) from Vietnam". Folia Parasitologica. 39 (1): 93–94. PMID 1644356.
- ^ Guglielmone, Alberto & Robbins, Richard & Apanaskevich, Dmitry & Petney, Trevor & Estrada-Peña, Agustín & Horak, Ivan. (2014). The Hard Ticks of the World (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae). 10.1007/978-94-007-7497-1.