Carios

Carios
Carios vespertilionis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Ixodida
Family: Argasidae
Subfamily: Ornithodorinae
Genus: Carios
Latreille, 1796

Carios is a genus of soft ticks belonging to the family Argasidae.[1] The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.[2]

Species

Carios is one of nine genera in the Argasid subfamily Ornithodorinae. The genus currently contains 8 species.[3][1]

  • C. (Carios) australiensis Kohls and Hoogstraal, 1962
  • C. (Carios) daviesi Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1973
  • C. (Carios) dewae Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1974
  • C. (Carios) macrodermae Hoogstraal, Moorhouse, Wolf and Wassef, 1977
  • C. (Carios) pusillus Kohls, 1950
  • C. (Carios) quadridentatus Heath, 2012
  • C. (Carios) sinensis Jeu and Zhu, 1982
  • C. (Carios) vespertilionis (Latreille, 1796)

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 (1 July 2021). "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. ^ "Carios Latreille, 1796". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  3. ^ 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 (1 January 2019). "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.