The world's argasid tick fauna comprises 183 species in four genera, namely Argas, Carios,
Ornithodoros and Otobius in the family Argasidae. The ixodid tick fauna consists of 241 …

Ticks in the genus Rhipicephalus include many important vectors of animal and human
pathogens, but many species are notoriously difficult to identify, particularly at immature …

The hard tick family Ixodidae currently comprises 762 species worldwide, but an analysis of
the occurrence of these species in the worlds countries, territories, zoogeographic regions …

We sequenced the entire mitochondrial genomes of 3 species of metastriate ticks:
Haemaphysalis formosensis, H. parva, and Amblyomma cajennense. We also sequenced …

Abstract Rhipicephalus australis Fuller, the Australian cattle tick, is reinstated and the adults
and larvae redescribed from material collected in Australia. This long ignored boophilid was …

Ticks of the genus Ixodes have recently assumed prominence because they frequently serve
as vectors of important zoonoses, including Lyme disease and babesiosis. The …

This work is intended as a consensus list of valid tick names, following recent revisionary
studies, wherein we recognize 896 species of ticks in 3 families. The Nuttalliellidae is …

References to the descriptions and redescriptions of the 742 species of Ixodidae published
from 1758 to December 31, 2019 are compiled, with the goal of enabling tick taxonomists to …

The overwhelming majority of animal conservation projects are focused on vertebrates,
despite most of the species on Earth being invertebrates. Estimates state that about half of …