Argas Explained

Argas is a genus of soft tick in the family Argasidae.^[1]

Species

Argas is one of six genera in the Argasid subfamily Argasinae. The genus currently contains 44 species over 2 subgenera.^[2]

A. (Argas) africolumbae Hoogstraal, Kaiser, Walker, Ledger, Converse and Rice, 1975
A. (Argas) arboreus Kaiser, Hoogstraal and Kohls, 1964
A. (Argas) assimilis Teng and Song, 1983
A. (Argas) beijingensis Teng, 1983
A. (Argas) brevipes Banks, 1908
A. (Argas) bureschi Dryenski, 1957
A. (Argas) cooleyi Kohls and Hoogstraal, 1960
A. (Argas) cucumerinus Neumann, 1901
A. (Argas) dalei Clifford, Keirans, Hoogstraal and Corwin, 1976
A. (Argas) delicatus Neumann, 1910
A. (Argas) dulus Keirans, Clifford and Capriles, 1971
A. (Argas) falco Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1974
A. (Argas) hermanni Audouin, 1826
A. (Argas) himalayensis Hoogstraal and Kaiser, 1973
A. (Argas) japonicus Yamaguti, Clifford and Tipton, 1968
A. (Argas) lagenoplastis Froggatt, 1906
A. (Argas) latus Filippova, 1961
A. (Argas) lowryae Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1975
A. (Argas) macrostigmatus Filippova, 1961
A. (Argas) magnus Neumann, 1896
A. (Argas) monachus Keirans, Radovsky and Clifford, 1973
A. (Argas) monolakensis Schwan, Corwin and Brown, 1992
A. (Argas) moreli Keirans, Hoogstraal and Clifford, 1979
A. (Argas) neghmei Kohls and Hoogstraal, 1961
A. (Argas) polonicus Siuda, Hoogstraal, Clifford and Wassef, 1979
A. (Argas) reflexus (Fabricius, 1794)
A. (Argas) tridentatus Filippova, 1961
A. (Argas) vulgaris Filippova, 1961

A. (Persicargas) abdussalami Hoogstraal and McCarthy, 1965
A. (Persicargas) beklemischevi Pospelova-Shtrom, Vasil´yeva and Semashko, 1963
A. (Persicargas) giganteus Kohls and Clifford, 1968
A. (Persicargas) gilcolladoi Estrada-Peña, Lucientes and Sánchez, 1987
A. (Persicargas) keiransi Estrada-Peña, Venzal and González-Acuña, 2003
A. (Persicargas) miniatus Koch, 1844
A. (Persicargas) nullarborensis Hoogstraal and Kaiser, 1973
A. (Persicargas) persicus (Oken, 1818)
A. (Persicargas) radiatus Railliet, 1893
A. (Persicargas) ricei Hoogstraal, Kaiser, Clifford and Keirans, 1975
A. (Persicargas) robertsi Hoogstraal, Kaiser and Kohls, 1968
A. (Persicargas) sanchezi Dugès, 1887
A. (Persicargas) streptopelia Kaiser, Hoogstraal and Horner, 1970
A. (Persicargas) theilerae Hoogstraal and Kaiser, 1970
A. (Persicargas) walkerae Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1969
A. (Persicargas) zumpti Hoogstraal, Kaiser and Kohls, 1968

Mans . Ben J. . Featherston . Jonathan . Kvas . Marija . Pillay . Kerry-Anne . de Klerk . Daniel G. . Pienaar . Ronel . de Castro . Minique H. . Schwan . Tom G. . Lopez . Job E. . Teel . Pete . Pérez de León . Adalberto A. . Sonenshine . Daniel E. . Egekwu . Noble I. . Bakkes . Deon K. . Heyne . Heloise . 2019-01-01 . Argasid and ixodid systematics: Implications for soft tick evolution and systematics, with a new argasid species list . Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases . 10 . 1 . 219–240 . 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.09.010 . 1877-959X.
Mans . Ben J. . Kelava . Samuel . Pienaar . Ronel . Featherston . Jonathan . de Castro . Minique H. . Quetglas . Juan . Reeves . Will K. . Durden . Lance A. . Miller . Myrna M. . Laverty . Theresa M. . Shao . Renfu . Takano . Ai . Kawabata . Hiroki . Moustafa . Mohamed Abdallah Mohamed . Nakao . Ryo . 2021-07-01 . 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 . 4 . 101688 . 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2021.101688 . 1877-959X. subscription .