Argas polonicus
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| Siuda , Hoogstraal , Clifford & Wassef , 1979 |
Argas polonicus is a leather tick that parasitizes on birds. Like the pigeon tick ( Argas reflexus ), it prefers pigeons as hosts, but other birds are also infested. Both nymphs and adults only seek out a host at night and hide during the day.
Female ticks are 5.5–11 × 4.5–7.5 mm, male ticks 5.5–8 × 3.5–5.5 mm. The ticks have a pyramidal body shape, the edge is wide. The hypostome is three times as long as it is wide, the bristles shorter than that of the related species A. vulgaris .
literature
- Krzysztof Siuda, Harry Hoogstraal, Carleton M. Clifford and Hilda Y. Wassef: Observations on the subgenus Argas (Ixodoidea: Argasidae: Argas). 17. Argas (A.) polonicus sp. n. parasitizing domestic pigeons in Krakow, Poland . In: The Journal of Parasitology 1979, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 170-181, doi : 10.2307 / 3280224 ( first description ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wieland Beck, Nikola Pantchev: Practical Parasitology in Pets: Small Mammals - Birds - Reptiles - Bees . 2nd Edition. Schlütersche, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8426-8518-5 , p. 8-68 .
- ↑ M. Dabert et al .: Species validity of the soft-tick Argas polonicus (Acari: Argasidae) based on 16S rRNA sequence analysis . In: Ecology and Evolution of the Acari: Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium of the European Association of Acarologists 1-5 July 1996, pp. 667-670.