Africaniella

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Africaniella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Ixodida
Family: Ixodidae
Genus: Africaniella
Travassos Dias, 1974
Type species
Africaniella transversale
Hornok, 2020

Africaniella is a genus of hard ticks. [1] There are two extant member species, native to tropical and subtropical Africa. Africaniella species primarily parasitise boa snakes.

Species

References

  1. Hornok, Sándor; Kontschán, Jenő; Takács, Nóra; Chaber, Anne-Lise; Halajian, Ali; Abichu, Getachew; Kamani, Joshua; Szekeres, Sándor; Plantard, Olivier (2020-11-01). "Molecular phylogeny of Amblyomma exornatum and Amblyomma transversale, with reinstatement of the genus Africaniella (Acari: Ixodidae) for the latter". Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 11 (6): 101494. doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2020.101494. ISSN   1877-959X.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)