Ornithodoros erraticus

Familia: Argasidae
Subfamilia: Ornithodorinae
Genus: Ornithodoros
Species: Ornithodoros erraticus

Ornithodoros erraticus Lucas, 1849.

Type locality: Algeria, El Taref, Lake Oubeïra, near El Kala National Park ("Houbeira Lake plain, near the Lacalle circle")

Typus: Syntypes: "three individuals".
Note: Collected "... end of November under some stones set quite deep in the ground, beneath which was a family of amphibians (Bufo pantherinus, Boié)." ([translated from] Lucas, 1849: p.317).

• Argas erraticus Lucas, 1849: 316. (Original combination)
• Ornithodoros erraticus (Lucas, 1849); Neumann, 1896: 37. Comb. nov.; Trape et al., 2013: 17 (etc).
• Ornithodoros (Pavlovskyella) erraticus (Lucas, 1849); Clifford, Kohls & Sonenshine, 1964; Mans et al., 2021: Appendix 1.
• Ornithodoros (Theriodoros) erraticus (Lucas, 1849); Muñoz-Leal et al., 2024: 7.
• =Ornithodoros erraticus erraticus (Lucas, 1849); Bailly-Choumara, Morel & Rageau, 1976
• Alectorobius erraticus (Lucas, 1849); Pospelova-Shtrom, 1953
• =Alectorobius (Theriodoros) erraticus (Lucas, 1849); Pospelova-Shtrom, 1953
• Carios erraticus (Lucas, 1849); source?

• Heterotypic
• = Ornithodoros erraticus major Colas-Belcour & Rageau, 1961

Also see later valid Ornithodoros marocanus Velu, 1919, treated by some as a subspecies under erraticus.

• Lucas, H. 1846–1849. Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842 publiée par ordre du Gouvernement et avec le concours d'une Commission Académique. Sciences Physiques. Zoologie. I. Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. Première partie. Crustacés, arachnides, myriapodes et héxapodes A. Bertrand, Paris. xxxv + 403 pp. [+ 35 associated pls]. BHL [pls. 1–35.] Reference page. 
• Neumann, L.G. 1896. Révision de la famille des Ixodidés. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 9: 1–44. BHL Reference page. 
• Muñoz-Leal, S. et al., 2024. Description of Ornithodoros (Pavlovskyella) tartakovskyi using scanning electron microscopy, with notes on the morphology of Pavlovskyella sensu stricto and Theriodoros subgenera. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 15: 102392.
• 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. 
• Trape, J-F., Diatta, G., Arnathau, C. Bitam, I., Sarih, M., Belghyti, D., Bouattour, A., Elguero, E., Vial, L., Mané, Y., Baldé, C., Pugnolle, F., Chauvancy, G., Mahé, G., Granjon, L., Duplantier, J-M., Durand, P. & Renaud, F. 2013. The epidemiology and geographic distribution of relapsing fever borreliosis in West and North Africa, with a review of the Ornithodoros erraticus Complex (Acari: Ixodida). PLoS ONE 8: e78473.PDF Reference page. 

• Bailly-Choumara, H., Morel, P.C., Rageau, J. 1976. Sommaire des données actuelles sur les tiques du Maroc (Acari, Ixodoidea). Bulletin de l'Institut Scientifique 1: 101–117.

• Tickbase Archive 2005

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