Navis (arachnid)

Navis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Ixodida
Family:	Argasidae
Subfamily:	Argasinae
Genus:	Navis Mans et al., 2019
Type species
Argas striatus Bedford, 1932

Navis is a genus of ticks belonging to the family Argasidae. ^[1] The genus is known from nests of sociable weavers in the Northern Cape, South Africa. The genus name is Latin for ship, as the tick's general shape, with parallel margins which round to a narrowed anterior, evokes the distinct appearance of a ship. ^[2]

Species

Navis is one of six genera in the Argasid subfamily Argasinae. The genus currently contains 2 species: ^{[2] [1]}

• N. (Navis) striatus (Bedford, 1932)
• N. (Navis) aequalis Neumann, 1901 ^[a]

Notes

1. N. aequalis is highly tentative, being known only from a single nymph in Tanzania, which Neumann described in 1908. ^{[3] [4]}

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 (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.
2. 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.
3. Neumann, G., 1901. Révision de la famille des Ixodidés. 4e Mémoire. Mém. Soc. Zool. Fr. 14, 249–372.
4. Neumann, L.G., 1908. Notes sur les Ixodidés. VI. Arch. Parasitol. 12, 1–27.