Alectorobius

Alectorobius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Ixodida
Family: Argasidae
Subfamily: Ornithodorinae
Genus: Alectorobius
Pocock, 1907
Type species
Alectorobius talaje
(Guerin-Meneville, 1849)

Alectorobius is a genus of ticks belonging to the family Argasidae.[1]

Species

Alectorobius is one of nine genera in the Argasid subfamily Ornithodorinae. The genus currently contains 64 species:[2][1]

  • A. (Alectorobius) amblus (Chamberlin, 1920)
  • A. (Alectorobius) antiquus (Poinar, 1995)
  • A. (Alectorobius) aragaoi (Fonseca, 1960)
  • A. (Alectorobius) atacamensis (Muñoz-Leal, Venzal & González-Acuña, 2016)
  • A. (Alectorobius) azteci (Matheson, 1935)
  • A. (Alectorobius) brodyi (Matheson, 1935)
  • A. (Alectorobius) capensis (Neumann, 1901)
  • A. (Alectorobius) casebeeri (Jones & Clifford, 1972)
  • A. (Alectorobius) cavernicolous (Dantas-Torres, Venzal & Labruna, 2012
  • A. (Alectorobius) cerradoensis (Muñoz-Leal, Martins & Labruna, 2020)
  • A. (Alectorobius) cheikhi (Vermeil, Marjolet & Vermeil, 1997)
  • A. (Alectorobius) chironectes (Jones & Clifford, 1972)
  • A. (Alectorobius) clarki (Jones & Clifford, 1972)
  • A. (Alectorobius) collocaliae (Hoogstraal, Kadarsan, Kaiser & Van Peenen, 1974)
  • A. (Alectorobius) concanensis (Cooley & Kohls, 1941)
  • A. (Alectorobius) coniceps (Canestrini, 1890)
  • A. (Alectorobius) cyclurae (de la Cruz, 1984)
  • A. (Alectorobius) darwini (Kohls, Clifford & Hoogstraal, 1969)
  • A. (Alectorobius) denmarki (Kohls, Sonenshine & Clifford, 1965)
  • A. (Alectorobius) dugesi (Mazzotti, 1943)
  • A. (Alectorobius) dusbabeki (Černý, 1967)
  • A. (Alectorobius) dyeri (Cooley & Kohls, 1940)
  • A. (Alectorobius) echimys (Kohls, Clifford & Jones, 1969)
  • A. (Alectorobius) elongatus (Kohls, Sonenshine & Clifford, 1965)
  • A. (Alectorobius) eptesicus (Kohls, Clifford & Jones, 1969)
  • A. (Alectorobius) faccinii (Barros-Battesti, Landulfo & Luz, 2015)
  • A. (Alectorobius) fonsecai (Labruna & Venzal, 2009)
  • A. (Alectorobius) galapagensis (Kohls, Clifford & Hoogstraal, 1969)
  • A. (Alectorobius) guaporensis (Nava, Venzal & Labruna, 2013
  • A. (Alectorobius) hasei (Schulze, 1935)
  • A. (Alectorobius) jerseyi (Klompen & Grimaldi, 2001)
  • A. (Alectorobius) jul (Schulze, 1940)
  • A. (Alectorobius) kelleyi (Cooley & Kohls, 1941)
  • A. (Alectorobius) knoxjonesi (Jones & Clifford, 1972)
  • A. (Alectorobius) kohlsi (Guglielmone & Keirans, 2002
  • A. (Alectorobius) lahillei (Venzal, González-Acuña & Nava, 2015)
  • A. (Alectorobius) maritimus (Vermeil & Marguet, 1967)
  • A. (Alectorobius) marmosae (Jones & Clifford, 1972)
  • A. (Alectorobius) microlophi (Venzal, Nava & González-Acuña, 2013)
  • A. (Alectorobius) mimon (Kohls, Clifford & Jones, 1969)
  • A. (Alectorobius) montensis (Venzal, Mangold & Nava, 2019)
  • A. (Alectorobius) muesebecki (Hoogstraal, 1969)
  • A. (Alectorobius) natalinus (Černý & Dusbábek, 1967)
  • A. (Alectorobius) ocodontus Muñoz-Leal, González-Acuña & Venzal, 2020
  • A. (Alectorobius) peropteryx (Kohls, Clifford & Jones, 1969)
  • A. (Alectorobius) peruvianus (Kohls, Clifford & Jones, 1969)
  • A. (Alectorobius) puertoricensis (Fox, 1947)
  • A. (Alectorobius) quilinensis (Venzal, Nava & Mangold, 2012)
  • A. (Alectorobius) rietcorreai (Labruna, Nava & Venzal, 2016)
  • A. (Alectorobius) rioplatensis (Venzal, Estrada-Peña & Mangold, 2008)
  • A. (Alectorobius) rondoniensis (Labruna, Terassini, Camargo, Brandão, Ribeiro & Estrada-Peña, 2008)
  • A. (Alectorobius) rossi (Kohls, Sonenshine & Clifford, 1965)
  • A. (Alectorobius) rudis (Karsch, 1880)
  • A. (Alectorobius) saraivai (Muñoz-Leal & Labruna, 2017)
  • A. (Alectorobius) sawaii (Kitaoka & Suzuki, 1973)
  • A. (Alectorobius) setosus (Kohls, Clifford & Jones, 1969)
  • A. (Alectorobius) spheniscus (Hoogstraal, Wassef, Hays & Keirans, 1985)
  • A. (Alectorobius) stageri (Cooley & Kohls, 1941)
  • A. (Alectorobius) tadaridae (Černý & Dusbábek, 1967)
  • A. (Alectorobius) talaje (Guérin-Méneville, 1849)
  • A. (Alectorobius) tiptoni (Jones & Clifford, 1972)
  • A. (Alectorobius) tuttlei (Jones & Clifford, 1972)
  • A. (Alectorobius) xerophylus (Venzal, Mangold & Nava, 2015)
  • A. (Alectorobius) yumatensis (Cooley & Kohls, 1941)
  • A. (Alectorobius) yunkeri (Keirans, Clifford & Hoogstraal, 1984)

References

  1. ^ a b Mans, Ben J.; Kelava, Samuel; Pienaar, Ronel; Featherston, Jonathan; de Castro, Minique H.; Quetglas, Juan; Reeves, Will K.; Durden, Lance A.; Miller, Myrna M.; Laverty, Theresa M.; Shao, Renfu; Takano, Ai; Kawabata, Hiroki; Moustafa, Mohamed Abdallah Mohamed; Nakao, Ryo (2021-07-01). "Nuclear (18S-28S rRNA) and mitochondrial genome markers of Carios (Carios) vespertilionis (Argasidae) support Carios Latreille, 1796 as a lineage embedded in the Ornithodorinae: re-classification of the Carios sensu Klompen and Oliver (1993) clade into its respective subgenera". Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 12 (4) 101688. doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2021.101688. ISSN 1877-959X.
  2. ^ Mans, Ben J.; Featherston, Jonathan; Kvas, Marija; Pillay, Kerry-Anne; de Klerk, Daniel G.; Pienaar, Ronel; de Castro, Minique H.; Schwan, Tom G.; Lopez, Job E.; Teel, Pete; Pérez de León, Adalberto A.; Sonenshine, Daniel E.; Egekwu, Noble I.; Bakkes, Deon K.; Heyne, Heloise (2019-01-01). "Argasid and ixodid systematics: Implications for soft tick evolution and systematics, with a new argasid species list". Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 10 (1): 219–240. doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.09.010. ISSN 1877-959X.