Carios capensis

Familia: Argasidae
Subfamilia: Ornithodorinae
Genus: Carios
Species:

Carios capensis Neumann, 1901

Type locality: South Africa, Cape town. (="colonie du Cap')

Typus: Holotype [?], repository |?], coll. Lounsbury.

• Ornithodoros talaje var. capensis Neumann, 1901: 258
• Ornithodoros capensis Neumann, 1901
• Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis Neumann, 1901
• Carios capensis (Neumann, 1901)
• Carios (Alectorobius) capensis (Neumann, 1901); Mans et al. 2021: 4, figs. 3,4
• Alectorobius capensis (Neumann, 1901); Mans et al. 2024: figs. 3,4

• Neumann, L.G. 1901. Révision de la famille des Ixodidés. (4e mémoire). Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 14: 249–372. BHL Reference page. 

• Dumbleton, L.J. 1958. The occurrence of an argasid tick in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Science, 1: 570–578.
• Heath, A.C.G. 2006. Observations on Ixodes eudyptidis Maskell (Acari: Ixodidae), Ornithodoros capensis Neumann (Acari: Argasidae), and other tick parasites of sea birds in New Zealand. Systematic and Applied Acarology 11(2): 131–140.
• Heath, A.C.G.; Palma, R.L.; Cane, R.P.; Hardwick, S. 2011: Checklist of New Zealand ticks (Acari: Ixodidae, Argasidae). Zootaxa, 2995: 55–63. Preview
• Ramsay, G.W. 1968. The argasid tick Ornithodoros capensis Neumann, from the Kermadec Islands. New Zealand Entomologist 4(1): 32–34. DOI: 10.1080/00779962.1968.9722882 PDF Reference page. 

Else see:

• Lounsbury, C.P. 1906. Habits and peculiarities of some South African ticks. Rep. Brit. Ass. Adv. Sc. 75: 282-291.

• Howard, C.W. 1908. A list of the ticks of South Africa, with descriptions and keys to all the forms known. BHL

• Australian Faunal Directory

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