Ornithodoros marocanus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ixodoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Subclassis: Acari Superordo: Parasitiformes Ordo: Ixodida Superfamilia: Ixodoidea

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

Name

Ornithodorus marocanus Velu, 1919

Type locality: Morocco. [For neotype=] Morocco, near Casablanca (33°22’N / 08°00’W)

Typus: "Pasteur Institute of Paris" (lost). Neotype: Female ♀ IRSNB/RBINS 32.280/007 [=IRD.TR- Mar16T11ZC], legit G. Diatta. 23.X.2009 (inside a rodent burrow). [Per Trape, 2013: 17]

Synonymy

Ornithodoros marocanus Velu, 1919: ?; Trape et al., 2013: 17 (etc).
= Ornithodoros (Pavlovskyella) marocanus (Velu, 1919); Mans et al., 2021: Appendix 1.
Ornithodoros erraticus marocanus (Velu, 1919); Durieux, 1932
Alectorobius (Theriodoros) marocanus (Velu, 1919); Pospelova-Shtrom, 1953

References

Primary references

Velu, H. 1919. Existence au Maroc d’une nouvelle espèce d’ornithodore. Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique 12: 99–104. 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.
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.