Alloceraea
Genus of ticks
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Alloceraea is a genus of hard ticks.[1] Member species parasitise a wide variety of hosts, but particularly bovids, cervids and birds.[2] The genus is found in the Oriental and Nearctic zoogeographic regions, in tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf and conifer forests.[3] Formerly a subgenus of Haemaphysalis, the taxon was elevated to generic rank in 2024.[1]
| Ixodidae cladogram after Barker et al., (2024)[4] |
| Alloceraea | |
|---|---|
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| Alloceraea inermis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Ixodida |
| Family: | Ixodidae |
| Genus: | Alloceraea Schulze, 1919 |
| Type species | |
| Alloceraea inermis (Birula, 1895) | |
Species
- Alloceraea aponommoides (Warburton, 1913)
- Alloceraea colasbelcouri (Santos Dias, 1958)
- Alloceraea inermis (Birula, 1895)
- Alloceraea kitaokai (Hoogstraal, 1969)
- Alloceraea kolonini (Du, Sun, Xu and Shao, 2018)
- Alloceraea primitiva (Teng, 1982)
- †Alloceraea cretacea[a] (Chitimia-Dobler, Pfeffer & Dunlop, 2018) Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian ~99 million years ago.[5]
- While this fossilied specimen was characterised as a Haemaphysalis (Alloceraea), and is thusly included in Alloceraea, Kelava et al. (2024) make clear that the poor quality of the specimen prevents confident morphological association with Alloceraea, or even Haemaphysalis.
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