Alloceraea
| Alloceraea | |
|---|---|
| Alloceraea inermis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Ixodida |
| Family: | Ixodidae |
| Genus: | Alloceraea Schulze, 1919 |
| Type species | |
| Alloceraea inermis (Birula, 1895)
| |
Alloceraea is a genus of hard ticks.[1] Member species parasitise a wide variety of hosts, but particularly bovids, cervids and birds.[2] The genus is found in the Oriental and Nearctic zoogeographic regions, in tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf and conifer forests.[3] Formerly a subgenus of Haemaphysalis, the taxon was elevated to generic rank in 2024.[1]
| Ixodidae cladogram after Barker et al., (2024)[4] |
Species
- Alloceraea aponommoides (Warburton, 1913)
- Alloceraea colasbelcouri (Santos Dias, 1958)
- Alloceraea inermis (Birula, 1895)
- Alloceraea kitaokai (Hoogstraal, 1969)
- Alloceraea kolonini (Du, Sun, Xu and Shao, 2018)
- Alloceraea primitiva (Teng, 1982)
- †Alloceraea cretacea[a] (Chitimia-Dobler, Pfeffer & Dunlop, 2018) Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian ~99 million years ago.[5]
- ^ While this fossilied specimen was characterised as a Haemaphysalis (Alloceraea), and is thusly included in Alloceraea, Kelava et al. (2024) make clear that the poor quality of the specimen prevents confident morphological association with Alloceraea, or even Haemaphysalis.
References
- ^ a b Kelava, Samuel; Apanaskevich, Dmitry A.; Shao, Renfu; Gofton, Alexander W.; Mans, Ben J.; Teo, Ernest J. M.; Norval, Gerrut; Barker, Dayana; Nakao, Ryo; Barker, Stephen C. (2024). "Insights from entire mitochondrial genome sequences into the phylogeny of ticks of the genera Haemaphysalis and Archaeocroton with the elevation of the subgenus Alloceraea Schulze, 1919 back to the status of a genus". Medical and Veterinary Entomology. 38 (2): 189–204. doi:10.1111/mve.12708. ISSN 0269-283X.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Guglielmone, Alberto A.; Robbins, Richard G.; Apanaskevich, Dmitry A.; Petney, Trevor N.; Estrada-Peña, Agustín; Horak, Ivan G. (2014). The Hard Ticks of the World: (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7497-1. ISBN 978-94-007-7496-4.
- ^ Barker, Stephen C.; Kelava, Samuel; Mans, Ben J.; Apanaskevich, Dmitry A.; Seeman, Owen D.; Gofton, Alexander; Shao, Renfu; Teo, Ernest J. M.; Evasco, Kimberley L.; Soennichsen, Kari F.; Barker, Dayana; Nakao, Ryo (2024-02-12). "The first cryptic genus of Ixodida, Cryptocroton n. gen. for Amblyomma papuanum Hirst, 1914: a tick of North Queensland, Australia, and Papua New Guinea". Zootaxa. 5410 (1): 91–111. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5410.1.5. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia; Pfeffer, Timo; Dunlop, Jason A. (September 2018). "Haemaphysalis cretacea a nymph of a new species of hard tick in Burmese amber". Parasitology. 145 (11): 1440–1451. doi:10.1017/S0031182018000537. ISSN 0031-1820. PMID 29642954. S2CID 4805512.