Acarus aegyptius, Linnaeus, 1758

Robbins, Richard G., Nava, Santiago, Ronai, Isobel, Chong, Kaylin L. & Guglielmone, Alberto A., 2025, Type specimens of the world’s hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names, Zootaxa 5606 (1), pp. 1-287 : 9

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scientific name	Acarus aegyptius
status

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aegyptius Linnaeus, 1758 , Acarus

Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae , secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. 1. Editio Decima, Reformata. Impensis Direct, Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, 823 pp.

Type depository: LC: but lost; UUZM: no type specification ( Wallin 1991)

Type locality: Oriente

Type host: unknown

Current status: a synonym of Hyalomma aegyptium and its original name, as listed in Camicas et al. (1998). The current status of Acarus aegyptius , as Hyalomma aegyptium , was established by Koch (1844).

Comments: Wallin (1991) discussed the status of many type specimens in the UUZM, but not in the case of Acarus aegyptius .