Antricola

Antricola
an Antricola species from a bat.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Ixodida
Family:	Argasidae
Subfamily:	Ornithodorinae
Genus:	Antricola Cooley & Kohls, 1942
Type species
Antricola coprophilus (McIntosh, 1935) [1]

Antricola is a genus of soft ticks in the family Argasidae. ^[2]

It is very similar to the subgenus Nothoaspis , which contains the species Nothoaspis reddelli . ^[1]

Species

Antricola is one of nine genera in the Argasid subfamily Ornithodorinae. The genus currently contains 17 species in two subgenera: ^{[2] [3]}

Antricola

• A. (Antricola) armasi de la Cruz and Estrada-Peña, 1995
• A. (Antricola) centralis de la Cruz and Estrada-Peña, 1995
• A. (Antricola) cernyi de la Cruz, 1978
• A. (Antricola) coprophilus (McIntosh, 1935)
• A. (Antricola) delacruzi Estrada-Peña, Barros-Battesti and Venzal, 2004
• A. (Antricola) granasi de la Cruz, 1973
• A. (Antricola) guglielmonei Estrada-Peña, Barros-Battesti and Venzal, 2004
• A. (Antricola) habanensis de la Cruz, 1976
• A. (Antricola) hummelincki de la Cruz and Estrada-Peña, 1995
• A. (Antricola) inexpectata Estrada-Peña, Barros-Battesti and Venzal, 2004
• A. (Antricola) martelorum de la Cruz, 1978
• A. (Antricola) mexicanus Hoffmann, 1958
• A. (Antricola) naomiae de la Cruz, 1978
• A. (Antricola) occidentalis de la Cruz, 1978
• A. (Antricola) siboneyi de la Cruz and Estrada-Peña, 1995
• A. (Antricola) silvai Černý, 1967

Parantricola

• A. (Parantricola) marginatus (Banks, 1910)

References

1. 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.
2. Mans, Ben J.; Kelava, Samuel; Pienaar, Ronel; Featherston, Jonathan; de Castro, Minique H.; Quetglas, Juan; Reeves, Will K.; Durden, Lance A.; Miller, Myrna M.; Laverty, Theresa M.; Shao, Renfu; Takano, Ai; Kawabata, Hiroki; Moustafa, Mohamed Abdallah Mohamed; Nakao, Ryo (2021-07-01). "Nuclear (18S-28S rRNA) and mitochondrial genome markers of Carios (Carios) vespertilionis (Argasidae) support Carios Latreille, 1796 as a lineage embedded in the Ornithodorinae: re-classification of the Carios sensu Klompen and Oliver (1993) clade into its respective subgenera" . Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 12 (4) 101688. doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2021.101688. ISSN   1877-959X.
3. Mans, Ben J.; Featherston, Jonathan; Kvas, Marija; Pillay, Kerry-Anne; de Klerk, Daniel G.; Pienaar, Ronel; de Castro, Minique H.; Schwan, Tom G.; Lopez, Job E.; Teel, Pete; Pérez de León, Adalberto A.; Sonenshine, Daniel E.; Egekwu, Noble I.; Bakkes, Deon K.; Heyne, Heloise (2019-01-01). "Argasid and ixodid systematics: Implications for soft tick evolution and systematics, with a new argasid species list". Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 10 (1): 219–240. doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.09.010. ISSN   1877-959X.