Chiropterargas

Familia: Argasidae
Subfamilia: Ornithodorinae
Genus: Chiropterargas
Species: C. boueti – C. ceylonensis – C. confusus – C. cordiformis

Chiropterargas Hoogstraal, 1955

Type species: Argas boueti Roubaud & Colas-Belcour, 1933

Gender: masculine

• Argas (Chiropterargas) Hoogstraal, 1955
• Chiropterargas Hoogstraal, 1955; sensu Camicas & Morel, 1977; Mans et al., 2021: Appendix 1

• Mans, B.J., Featherston, J., Kvas, M., Pillay, K-A., Klerk, D.G. de, Pienaar, R., Castro, M.H. de, Schwan, T.G., Lopez, J.E., Teel, P., Pérez de León, A.A., Sonenshine, D.E., Egekwu, N.I., Bakkes, D.K., Heyne, H., Kanduma, E.G., Nyangiwe, N., Bouattour, A. & Latif, A.A. 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 PDF 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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