Table Of ContentAlberto A. Guglielmone · Richard G. Robbins
Dmitry A. Apanaskevich · Trevor N. Petney
Agustín Estrada-Peña · Ivan G. Horak
The Hard
Ticks of the
World
(Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae)
T he Hard Ticks of the World
A lberto A. G uglielmone • R ichard G. R obbins
D mitry A. A panaskevich • T revor N. P etney
A gustín E strada-Peña • I van G. H orak
T he Hard Ticks of the World
( Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae)
A lberto A. G uglielmone R ichard G. R obbins
D epartment of Animal Production A rmed Forces Pest Management Board
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología O ffi ce of the Deputy Under Secretary
Agropecuaria of Defense for Installations and
E stación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela Environment
R afaela, A rgentina W ashington, D C, U SA
D mitry A. A panaskevich T revor N. P etney
J ames H. Oliver Jr. Institute of D epartment of Ecology and Parasitology
Arthropodology and Parasitology Institute of Zoology
U .S. National Tick Collection K arlsruhe Institute of Technology
Georgia Southern University K arlsruhe, B aden-Württemberg
S tatesboro, G eorgia, U SA G ermany
A gustín E strada-Peña I van G. H orak
D epartment of Parasitology D epartment of Veterinary Tropical Diseases
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Faculty of Veterinary Science
U niversity of Zaragoza U niversity of Pretoria
Z aragoza, S pain O nderstepoort, Gauteng Province
S outh Africa
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D OI 10.1007/978-94-007-7497-1
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T his work is dedicated to the memory of
J ane B. Walker (1925–2009)
d oyenne of African ixodid tick taxonomy
and internationally renowned expert on the
R hipicephalus species of the world.
P refa ce
T he hard tick family Ixodidae currently comprises over 700 species worldwide, but
information on types, developmental stages, distribution and hosts is scattered and
often diffi cult to access. We have undertaken the task of compiling such information
for each species of ixodid tick that we consider valid, believing that our summary
will prove to be a valuable reference for the many people interested in ticks as
organisms and also for specialists in tick-borne diseases. We fully expect that sev-
eral new species of Ixodidae will have been described while this book was in press.
Data for all species treated here were gleaned from a search of the world literature
that concluded on 31 May 2013.
A lberto A. GUGLIELMONE is a Senior Scientist in Parasitology at the Estación
Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria,
and Principal Scientist at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científi cas y
Técnicas, Argentina. Electronic mail: g
A cknowledgements
W e warmly thank Ms. Marta Sánchez, librarian at the Estación Experimental
Agropecuaria Rafaela, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Rafaela,
Argentina; Mr. Yago Alfonso, Centro Argentino de Información Científi ca y
Tecnológica, Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva, Buenos
Aires, Argentina; and Ms. Gabriela Laspina, librarian at the Servicio Centralizado
de Documentacion, Centro Científi co Tecnológico, Consejo Nacional de Investi-
gaciones Científi cas y Técnicas, Santa Fe, Argentina, for their heroic efforts in
obtaining numerous publications from scientists and libraries around the world.
Miss Evelina Tarragona, postgraduate student at the Facultad de Ciencias Veterinaria,
Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina, helped us in reviewing much of the
literature on which this study is based.
W e are grateful to the following scientists who located publications relevant to
our work: Anne Baker, Natural History Museum, London, England; Lorenza Beati,
United States National Tick Collection, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro,
USA; Michael, J. Burridge, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida,
Gainesville, USA; Gennady V. Kolonin, Ministry of Natural Resources, Moscow,
Russia; Marcelo, B. Labruna, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e
Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de
São Paulo, Brazil; Francisco Márquez, Universidad de Jaen, Spain; Mariano
Mastropaolo, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional del Litoral,
Esperanza, Argentina; Santiago Nava, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria
Rafaela, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Rafaela, Argentina;
Magdalena Nowak-Chmura, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology,
Institute of Biology, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Kraków, Poland; Ifor L. Owen,
National Veterinary Laboratory, National Agriculture Quarantine and Inspection
Authority, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; Luis M. Rosalino, Universidade de
Lisboa, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Lisboa, Portugal; Matias J. P. Szabó,
Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Uberlandia,
Brazil; and José M. Venzal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de la República,
Salto, Uruguay.
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