Alloceraea

Alloceraea
Line drawing of Alloceraea inermis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Ixodida
Family:	Ixodidae
Genus:	Alloceraea Schulze, 1919
Type species
Alloceraea inermis Birula, 1895

Alloceraea is a genus of hard ticks. ^[1] Member species parasitise a wide variety of hosts, but particularly bovids, cervids and birds. ^[2] The genus is found in the Oriental and Nearctic zoogeographic regions, in tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf and conifer forests. ^[3] Formerly a subgenus of Haemaphysalis , the taxon was elevated to generic rank in 2024. ^[1]

Species

• Alloceraea colasbelcouri (Santos Dias, 1958)
• Alloceraea inermis (Birula, 1895)
• Alloceraea kitaokai (Hoogstraal, 1969)
• Alloceraea kolonini (Du, Sun, Xu and Shao, 2018)

• † Alloceraea cretacea ^a

^a While this fossilied specimen was characterised as a Haemaphysalis (Alloceraea), and is thusly included in Alloceraea, Kelava et al. (2024) make clear that the poor quality of the specimen prevents confident morphological association with Alloceraea, or even Haemaphysalis.

References

1. Kelava, Samuel; Apanaskevich, Dmitry A.; Shao, Renfu; Gofton, Alexander W.; Mans, Ben J.; Teo, Ernest J. M.; Norval, Gerrut; Barker, Dayana; Nakao, Ryo; Barker, Stephen C. (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. ISSN   0269-283X.
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. Guglielmone, Alberto A.; Robbins, Richard G.; Apanaskevich, Dmitry A.; Petney, Trevor N.; Estrada-Peña, Agustín; Horak, Ivan G. (2014). The Hard Ticks of the World: (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7497-1. ISBN   978-94-007-7496-4.