Australpavlovskyella, Barker & Kelava & Shaw & Teo & Gofton & Tan & Barker & Cho & Nakao & Muñoz-Leal & Mans, 2025

Barker, Stephen C., Kelava, Samuel, Shaw, Matthew David, Teo, Ernest J. M., Gofton, Alexander, Tan, Craig J., Barker, Dayana, Cho, Mingeun, Nakao, Ryo, Muñoz-Leal, Sebastián & Mans, Ben J., 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, Zootaxa 5686 (3), pp. 339-372 : 367

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5686.3.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:734F423B-3A17-43AF-83BA-7ED940E7AE38

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17016736

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Australpavlovskyella
status

gen. nov.

Genus Australpavlovskyella gen. nov. Barker, S.C.

Type species: Australpavlovskyella gurneyi ( Warburton, 1926) , here designated.

Type depository: British Museum (Natural History) London, according to Keirans & Brewster (1981).

Species: Australpavlovskyella gurneyi ( Warburton, 1926) .

Material examined: Table 1.

Diagnosis: Larva without spinose zone within or near Haller’s organ; dorsal plate absent; two pairs of postcoxal setae; 11 pairs of dorsolateral setae. Adults with cheeks (digitiform-like structures), dorsoventral groove and hood; preanal and postanal groove marked; median post-anal groove intersected by the transverse post-anal groove in the middle of its origin in the anal ring, so the intersection forms a sharp angle; tarsi I–III with three dorsal humps; metatarsi I–III with poorly developed humps.

Etymology: Australpavlovskyella gen. nov. is named in allusion to the geographical distribution of the species, which is restricted to Australasia.

Distribution: Australia.

ZooBank: The Life Science Identifier (LSID) for Australpavlovskyella gen. nov. Barker, S.C. is http://zoobank. org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Argasidae

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