Alectorobius cavernicolous

Familia: Argasidae
Subfamilia: Ornithodorinae
Genus: Alectorobius
Species: Alectorobius cavernicolous

Alectorobius cavernicolous (Dantas-Torres, Venzal & Labruna, 2012)

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Typus:

• Ornithodoros cavernicolous Dantas-Torres, Venzal & Labruna, 2012: pp.
• Alectorobius cavernicolous (Dantas-Torres, et al., 2012; Mans, 2021: Appendix 1.

• Dantas-Torres F., Venzal J.M., Bernardi L.F.O., Ferreira R.L., Onofrio V.C., Marcili A., Bermudez S.E., Ribeiro A.F., Barros-Battesti D.M. & Labruna M.B. 2012. Description of a new species of bat-associated argasid tick (Acari: Argasidae) from Brazil. Journal of Parasitology 98(1): 36–45. DOI: 10.1645/GE-2840.1 pdf

• Oliveira, G.M.B. de, Munoz-Leal, S., Nava, S., Horta, M.C., Bernardi, L., Venzal, J.M. & Labruna, M.B. 2024. New records of soft ticks (Acari: Argasidae) from caves in Brazil, with a morphological study of Ornithodoros fonsecai and an analysis of the taxonomic status of Antricola inexpectata. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 15(3): 102331. DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2024.102331 Reference page. 
• Mans, B.J., Kelavad, S., Pienaara, R., Featherstone, J., Castro, M.H. de, Quetglas, J., Reeves, W.K., Durden, L.A., Miller, M.M., Laverty, T.M., Shao, R., Takano, A., Kawabata, H., Moustafa, M.A.M., Nakao, R., Matsuno, K., Greay, T.L., Evasco, K.L., Barker, D., Barker, S.C. 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: 101688. DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2021.101688 Reference page. 

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