Amblyomma vikirri, Robbins & Nava & Ronai & Chong & Guglielmone, 2025
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1 |
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publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0851EDA-FE18-4F87-9245-B108786B22F4 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8263FE48-FF2D-42FD-FF23-FAD5FB32F9F9 |
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treatment provided by |
Plazi |
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scientific name |
Amblyomma vikirri |
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vikirri Keirans, Bull & Duffield, 1996 View in CoL , Amblyomma
Keirans, J.E., Bull, C.M. & Duffield, G.A. (1996) Amblyomma vikirri n. sp. (Acari: Ixodida : Ixodidae ), a parasite of the gidgee skink Egernia stokesii (Reptilia: Scincidae ) from South Australia. Systematic Parasitology, 34, 1–9.
Type depositories: SAM: holotype (male) and paratypes (males, females, nymphs and larvae); USNTC: paratypes (males, females, nymphs and larvae)
Type locality: Warruwarldunha Range , Flinder Ranges near Hawker, South Australia, Australia
Type host: Egernia stokesii
Comments: type specimens were reared in the laboratory from ticks collected from the type host.
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U.S. National Tick Collection |
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