Antricola

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Antricola
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Ixodida
Family: Argasidae
Genus: Antricola
Cooley & Kohls, 1942
Type species
Antricola coprophilus
(McIntosh, 1935) [1]

Antricola is a genus of tick containing 16 species. It is very similar to the genus Nothoaspis , which contains the species Nothoaspis reddelli . [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Marcelo B. Labruna; Flavio A. Terassini; Luis Marcelo A. Camargo; Paulo E. Brandão; Alberto F. Ribeiro; Agustin Estrada-Peña (2008). "New reports of Antricola guglielmonei and Antricola delacruzi in Brazil, and a description of a new argasid species (Acari)" . Journal of Parasitology (Submitted manuscript). 94 (4): 788–792. doi:10.1645/GE-1447.1. JSTOR   40059099. PMID   18576796. S2CID   19045855.