Apanaskevichiella, Barker & Kelava & Shaw & Teo & Gofton & Tan & Barker & Cho & Nakao & Muñoz-Leal & Mans, 2025
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5686.3.2 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/332A6C55-6B3E-2231-FF35-F904FFDE45FF |
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Plazi |
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Apanaskevichiella |
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gen. nov. |
Genus Apanaskevichiella gen. nov. Barker, S.C.
Type species: Apanaskevichiella macmillani ( Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1966) , here designated.
Type depository: British Museum (Natural History) London, according to Keirans & Brewster (1981). Species: Apanaskevichiella macmillani ( Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1966) .
Material examined: Table 1.
subgenus-level and genus-level lineages of Argasidae .
Alectorobius Ornithodoros Chiropterargas Neotropic _ Nearctic_ Palearctic_ Afrotropic_ Australapavlovskyella Apanaskevichiella Pavlovskyella Pavlovskyella Pavlovskyella Pavlovskyella
Alectorobius 24.3 (5.8–30.8) 0.42 0.49 0.38 0.38 0.42 0.44 0.40 0.42
Ornithodoros 30.6 (29.4–33) 20.2 (5.9–24.4) 0.50 0.39 0.39 0.43 0.45 0.41 0.42
Chiropterargas 34.4 (33.1–37.3) 35 (33.5–37) 28.3 (24–31) 0.47 0.47 0.50 0.51 0.47 0.51
Diagnosis: Larva without spinose zone within or near Haller’s organ; dorsal plate present; 2 pairs of postcoxal setae; 10 pairs of dorsolateral setae. Nymphs and adults lack cheeks, dorsoventral groove and hood; preanal and postanal groove shallow; transverse post-anal groove short, perpendicular to median post-anal groove, resembling ventral paired organs of Carios ; tarsi and metatarsi without humps.
Etymology: Apanaskevichiella gen. nov. is named for Dmitry Apanaskevich to acknowledge his substantial contribution to the taxonomy of ticks.
Distribution: Australia.
ZooBank: The Life Science Identifier (LSID) for Apanaskevichiella gen. nov. Barker, S.C. is http://zoobank. org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:
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