Africaniella transversale

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Africaniella transversale
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Ixodida
Family: Ixodidae
Genus: Africaniella
Travassos Dias, 1974
Species:
A. transversale
Binomial name
Africaniella transversale
(Lucas, 1845) [1]
Synonyms
  • Ixodes transversalisLucas, 1845
  • Ixodes globulusLucas, 1860
  • Aponomma transversaleNeumann, 1899

Africaniella transversale is a species of tick. It is native to the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands of Africa, where it feeds on boas and bovids. [2] [3] It is one of two species currently of the genus Africaniella.

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Systematics & Morphology

Africaniella transversale is characterised by a suboval, very wide body profile; an indistinct anal groove; long, rounded triangular coxae; and in the male, broad triangular cornuae. [3] The species is similar to Africaniella orlovi - there is some ambiguity as to whether the two species should be considered synonymous, due to the poor description of Kolonin, who initially described A. orlovi from Vietnam, where it is not present. [4] [5]

Distribution

Some records suggest Africaniella transversale is present in the Palearctic realm, but the likelihood that it is established outside the Afrotropical realm is low. There is some evidence the species is able to infest non-Afrotropical hosts, however. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Lucas, M. H. (1845). Sur une nouvelle espèce d’Arachnide qui appartient au genre Ixodes, et qui vit dans le contour interne de la cavité orbitaire de Python sebae, Duméril et Bibron (Coluber sebae, Gmelin). In Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Série (Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 61-65).
  2. ↑ Guglielmone, Alberto A.; Petney, Trevor N.; Robbins, Richard G. (2020-11-05). "Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019". Zootaxa. 4871 (1): 1–322. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1. ISSN   1175-5334.
  3. 1 2 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)
  4. ↑ Kolonin, G.V.. (2003). New data on ixodid tick fauna of Vietnam. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 82. 1019-1021.
  5. ↑ Kolonin GV. Aponomma orlovi sp. n.--a new species of ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) from Vietnam. Folia Parasitol (Praha). 1992;39(1):93-4. PMID: 1644356.
  6. ↑ Guglielmone, Alberto & Robbins, Richard & Apanaskevich, Dmitry & Petney, Trevor & Estrada-Peña, Agustín & Horak, Ivan. (2014). The Hard Ticks of the World (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae). 10.1007/978-94-007-7497-1.
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