Stephen C. Barker

Stephen C. Barker, Australian parasitologist

• Department of Parasitology, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia.

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• 5 taxon names authored by Stephen C. Barker

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• Klompen, H., Dobson , S.J. & 2002. A new subfamily, Bothriocrotoninae n. subfam., for the genus Bothriocroton Keirans, King & Sharrad, 1994 status amend. (Ixodida: Ixodidae), and the synonymy of Aponomma Neumann, 1899 with Amblyomma Koch, 1844. Systematic Parasitology 53(2): 101–107. DOI: 10.1023/a:1020466007722 ResearchGate . Reference page. 

• Murrell, A. & 2003. Synonymy of Boophilus Curtice, 1891 with Rhipicephalus Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae). Systematic Parasitology 56: 169–172 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 

• Cameron, S.L., Miller, K.B., D'Haese, C.A., Whiting, M.F., 2004. Mitochondrial genome data alone are not enough to unambiguously resolve the relationships of Entognatha, Insecta and Crustacea sensu lato (Arthropoda). Cladistics 20(6): 534–557. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2004.00040.x . Reference page. 
• & Murrell, A. 2004. Systematics and evolution of ticks with a list of valid genus and species names. Parasitology 129(S1): 15–36. DOI: 10.1017/S0031182004005207 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 

• & Murrell, A. 2008. Systematics and evolution of ticks with a list of valid genus and species names. In: Bowman, A.S. & Nuttall, P.A. (eds). Ticks Biology, Disease and Control. Cambridge University Press: 1–39. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511551802.002 ResearchGate Reference page. 

• Guglielmone, A.A., Robbins, R.G., Apanaskevich, D.A., Petney, T.N., Estrada-Peña, A., Horak, I.G., Shao, R. & 2010. The Argasidae, Ixodidae and Nuttalliellidae (Acari: Ixodida) of the world: a list of valid species names. Zootaxa 2528: 1–28. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2528.1.1 ResearchGate . Reference page. 

• Mey, E. & 2014: Eine neue auf den Feenvögeln (Irenidae) lebende Brueelia-Art (Insecta, Phthiraptera, Ischnocera, Philopteridae), nebst Anmerkungen zur Gattung Brueelia Kéler, 1936 sensu lato [A new Brueelia species (Insecta, Phthiraptera, Ischnocera, Philopteridae) living on Fairy-bluebirds (Irenidae), with remarks on the genus Brueelia Kéler, 1936 sensu lato.] Rudolstädter naturhistorische Schriften 19: 73–114. [In German with English summary] Reference page. 

• & Burger, T.D. 2018. Two new genera of hard ticks, Robertsicus n. gen. and Archaeocroton n. gen., and the solution to the mystery of Hoogstraal’s and Kaufman’s “primitive” tick from the Carpathian Mountains. Zootaxa 4500(4): 543–552. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.4.4 ResearchGate Reference page. 

• Kelava, S., Apanaskevich, D.A., Shao, R., Gofton, A.W., Mans, B.J., Teo, E.J.M., Norval, G., Nakao, R. & 2024. Insights from entire mitochondrial genome sequences into the phylogeny of ticks of the genera Haemaphysalis and Archaeocroton with the elevation of the subgenus Alloceraea Schulze, 1919 back to the status of a genus. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 38(2): 189–204. DOI: 10.1111/mve.12708 Reference page. 
• Uribe, J.E., Kelava, S., Nava, S., Cotes-Perdomo, A.P., Castro, L.R., Rivera-Paéz, F.A., Perea, S., Mans, B.J., Gofton, A., Teo, E.J.M., Zardoya, R. & 2024. New insights into the molecular phylogeny, biogeographical history, and diversification of Amblyomma ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) based on mitogenomes and nuclear sequences. Parasites & Vectors 17: 139. DOI: 10.1186/s13071-024-06131-w . Reference page. 

• Apanaskevich, D.A., Greiman, S.E., Goodman, S.M., Apanaskevich, M.A., Ahmed, R. & 2025. Validation of Sharifiella Santos Dias, 1958 (Acari: Ixodidae) as a genus of hard ticks containing S. theilerae (Hoogstraal, 1953), a parasite of tail-less tenrec, Tenrec ecaudatus (Schreber) (Afrosoricida: Tenrecidae) on Madagascar. Zootaxa 5627(3): 503–525. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.3.5 Reference page. 
• , Kelava, S., Murrell, A., Cho, M., Teo, E.J.M., Nakao, R. & Apanaskevich, D.A. 2025. Margaropus Karsch, 1879 is not closely related to Boophilus Curtice, 1891 (Acari: Ixodidae). Zootaxa 5569(3): 477–492. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5569.3.4 Reference page. 
• Mans, B.J., Kelava, S., Doube, B.M., Shaw, M.D., Teo, E.J.M., Barker, D., Pienaar, R., Castro, M.H. de, Gofton, A., Nakao, R. & 2025. Independent lineages from five zoogeographic realms: the mitochondrial genome of Ornithodoros (Pavlovskyella) gurneyi Warburton, 1926 (Acari: Argasidae) confirms paraphyly of the subgenus Pavlovskyella Pospelova-Shtrom, 1950. Zootaxa 5665(3): 397–409. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5665.3.5 Reference page.