Alloceraea
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| 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) | |
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] |
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