Argas

Argas
Argas species from a pigeon.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Ixodida
Family:	Argasidae
Subfamily:	Argasinae
Genus:	Argas Latreille, 1795

Argas is a genus of soft tick in the family Argasidae.^[1]

Species

Argas is one of six genera in the Argasid subfamily Argasinae. The genus currently contains 44 species over 2 subgenera.^[2][1]

Argas

• A. (Argas) africolumbae Hoogstraal, Kaiser, Walker, Ledger, Converse and Rice, 1975
• A. (Argas) arboreus Kaiser, Hoogstraal and Kohls, 1964
• A. (Argas) assimilis Teng and Song, 1983
• A. (Argas) beijingensis Teng, 1983
• A. (Argas) brevipes Banks, 1908
• A. (Argas) bureschi Dryenski, 1957
• A. (Argas) cooleyi Kohls and Hoogstraal, 1960
• A. (Argas) cucumerinus Neumann, 1901
• A. (Argas) dalei Clifford, Keirans, Hoogstraal and Corwin, 1976
• A. (Argas) delicatus Neumann, 1910
• A. (Argas) dulus Keirans, Clifford and Capriles, 1971
• A. (Argas) falco Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1974
• A. (Argas) hermanni Audouin, 1826
• A. (Argas) himalayensis Hoogstraal and Kaiser, 1973
• A. (Argas) japonicus Yamaguti, Clifford and Tipton, 1968
• A. (Argas) lagenoplastis Froggatt, 1906
• A. (Argas) latus Filippova, 1961
• A. (Argas) lowryae Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1975
• A. (Argas) macrostigmatus Filippova, 1961
• A. (Argas) magnus Neumann, 1896
• A. (Argas) monachus Keirans, Radovsky and Clifford, 1973
• A. (Argas) monolakensis Schwan, Corwin and Brown, 1992
• A. (Argas) moreli Keirans, Hoogstraal and Clifford, 1979
• A. (Argas) neghmei Kohls and Hoogstraal, 1961
• A. (Argas) polonicus Siuda, Hoogstraal, Clifford and Wassef, 1979
• A. (Argas) reflexus (Fabricius, 1794)
• A. (Argas) tridentatus Filippova, 1961
• A. (Argas) vulgaris Filippova, 1961

Persicargas

• A. (Persicargas) abdussalami Hoogstraal and McCarthy, 1965
• A. (Persicargas) beklemischevi Pospelova-Shtrom, Vasil´yeva and Semashko, 1963
• A. (Persicargas) giganteus Kohls and Clifford, 1968
• A. (Persicargas) gilcolladoi Estrada-Peña, Lucientes and Sánchez, 1987
• A. (Persicargas) keiransi Estrada-Peña, Venzal and González-Acuña, 2003
• A. (Persicargas) miniatus Koch, 1844
• A. (Persicargas) nullarborensis Hoogstraal and Kaiser, 1973
• A. (Persicargas) persicus (Oken, 1818)
• A. (Persicargas) radiatus Railliet, 1893
• A. (Persicargas) ricei Hoogstraal, Kaiser, Clifford and Keirans, 1975
• A. (Persicargas) robertsi Hoogstraal, Kaiser and Kohls, 1968
• A. (Persicargas) sanchezi Dugès, 1887
• A. (Persicargas) streptopelia Kaiser, Hoogstraal and Horner, 1970
• A. (Persicargas) theilerae Hoogstraal and Kaiser, 1970
• A. (Persicargas) walkerae Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1969
• A. (Persicargas) zumpti Hoogstraal, Kaiser and Kohls, 1968

References

1. 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.
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.