Carios

Carios
Carios vespertilionis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Ixodida
Family:	Argasidae
Subfamily:	Ornithodorinae
Genus:	Carios Latreille, 1796

Carios is a genus of soft ticks belonging to the family Argasidae. ^{[1] [2]} The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution. ^[3]

Species

Carios is one of nine genera in the Argasid subfamily Ornithodorinae. The genus currently contains 8 species. ^{[4] [1]}

• C. (Carios) australiensis (Kohls and Hoogstraal, 1962)
• C. (Carios) daviesi (Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1973)
• C. (Carios) dewae (Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1974)
• C. (Carios) macrodermae (Hoogstraal, Moorhouse, Wolf and Wassef, 1977)
• C. (Carios) pusillus (Kohls, 1950)
• C. (Carios) quadridentatus Heath, 2012
• C. (Carios) sinensis (Jeu and Zhu, 1982)
• C. (Carios) vespertilionis (Latreille, 1796)

References

1. 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 (1 July 2021). "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.
2. Alberto A. Guglielmone; Richard G. Robbing; Dmitry A. Apanaskevich; Trevor N. Petney; Agustín Estrada-Peña; Ivan G. Horak; Renfu Shao; Stephen C. Barker (2010). "The Argasidae, Ixodidae and Nuttalliellidae (Acari: Ixodida) of the world: a list of valid species names" (PDF). Zootaxa . 2528: 1–28. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2528.1.1. hdl:11336/97869. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
3. "Carios Latreille, 1796". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
4. 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 (1 January 2019). "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.