Aponomma orlovi, Robbins & Nava & Ronai & Chong & Guglielmone, 2025
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0851EDA-FE18-4F87-9245-B108786B22F4 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8263FE48-FF58-428B-FF23-F8C3FE4EFEE9 |
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Plazi |
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Aponomma orlovi |
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orlovi Kolonin, 1992 View in CoL , Aponomma
Kolonin, G.V. (1992) Aponomma orlovi sp. n., a new species of ixodid tick ( Acarina : Ixodidae ) from Vietnam. Folia Parasitologica , 39, 93–94.
Type depositories: ZIAC: holotype (female); KC: a paratype (female)
Type locality: Shonla , Vietnam, but corrected to Africa in Kolonin (2003)
Type host: Python molorus bivittatus
Current status: a synonym of Africaniella orlovi and its original name, as discussed in Hornok et al. (2020), who also established the current status of Aponomma orlovi .
Comments : this tick was originally treated as found in Vietnam ( Oriental Zoogeographic Region), but this was reassessed by Kolonin (2003), who concluded that the type locality is an undetermined locality in Africa ( Afrotropical Zoogeographic Region) .
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