Ticks of the Genus Ixodes in Africa |
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... rodents and carnivores -- is entirely unique . Three Ixodes species occur on the island , two on endemic rodents and endemic insectivores , and the third on primates . The fourth section is concerned with ticks associated with sea birds ...
... rodents and carnivores -- is entirely unique . Three Ixodes species occur on the island , two on endemic rodents and endemic insectivores , and the third on primates . The fourth section is concerned with ticks associated with sea birds ...
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... rodents in long grass beside streams and rivers . In drier areas , this tick is taken in the smaller and shorter runways of other rodents associated with bunches of grass at the base of thorn bushes and other shrubs . Red shrews also ...
... rodents in long grass beside streams and rivers . In drier areas , this tick is taken in the smaller and shorter runways of other rodents associated with bunches of grass at the base of thorn bushes and other shrubs . Red shrews also ...
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... rodents , 10 of carnivores , and 41 of lemurs ( primates ) in this area . The combination of so few major groups in one great tropical or temperate land area is unequalled except in Australia . The composition of the Malagasy fauna ...
... rodents , 10 of carnivores , and 41 of lemurs ( primates ) in this area . The combination of so few major groups in one great tropical or temperate land area is unequalled except in Australia . The composition of the Malagasy fauna ...
Contents
General Introduction Techniques etc | 1 |
Ixodes species of North Africa and the Near East | 11 |
Ixodes species of the Ethiopian faunal region | 85 |
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adanal plates Africa Anal groove anal plate anteriorly anterolateral apex Arthur auriculae basally basis capituli broadly rounded Capitulum dorsal Capitulum Figs Capitulum ventral Cephalophus Cervical grooves cheliceral concave convergent convex cornua coxae Coxae and trochanters curved denticles dentition DEPOSITION OF TYPE DESCRIPTION Female Body DISEASE RELATIONS unknown distal divergent dorsal ridge elongate oval external spur Genital Genital aperture greatest breadth greatest width holotype Hoogstraal hosts hump Hypostome Fig Idiosoma Ixodes Ixodoidea larvae Lateral carinae lateral margins Legs length of segment Length of tarsus macula male mesial midlength moderate length narrow Neumann Nightingale Island Nuttall nymph Onderstepoort palpal insertion Palpal segment Palpi palps Paratypes pilosus Porose areas posterior margin straight posteriorly posterointernal posterolateral margins procaviae punctations rasus rounded apically rows of 2/2 rows of 3/3 salient Scapulae Scutum Fig shallow short slightly species specimens Spiracle Spiracular plate syncoxae tapering Tarsi Tarsus and metatarsus tarsus iv teeth Theiler ticks transverse trochanters trochanters I-IV