Apanaskevichiella

Apanaskevichiella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Ixodida
Family:	Argasidae
Genus:	Apanaskevichiella Barker et al., 2025
Species:	A. macmillani
Binomial name
Apanaskevichiella macmillani (Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1966) [1]

Apanaskevichiella, is a genus of argasid soft tick belonging to the family Argasidae. The genus is monotypic containing a single species Apanaskevichiella macmillani, the McMillans Australian tree-hollow argasid. ^[2] It is a parasite found on Cockatoos in Australia.

Taxonomy

The species was described as Ornithodoros macmillani by Hoogstraal & Kohls in 1966. ^[1] It was later revised as Apanaskevichiella macmillani (Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1966) ^[3]

References

1. Hoogstraal, H. & Kohls, G.M. 1966. Ornithodoros (Pavlovskyella) macmillani, New Species (Ixodoidea: Argasidae), a Nest Parasite of Australian Cockatoos (Kakatoe roseicapilla). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 59(1): 86–92.
2. "Ornithodoros macmillani Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1966". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
3. Barker, Stephen C.; Kelava, Samuel; Shaw, Matthew D.; etc (2025). "Two new genera for the Australian species of the subgenus Pavlovskyella Pospelova-Shtrom, 1950 (genus Ornithodoros Koch, 1844) (Acari: Ixodida: Argasidae: Ornithodorinae): Apanaskevichiella gen. nov. for O. (P.) macmillani Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1966; and Australpavlovskyella gen. nov. for O. (P.) gurneyi Warburton, 1926". Zootaxa. 5686 (3): 339–372. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5686.3.2.