Carios
Genus of ticks
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Carios is a genus of soft ticks belonging to the family Argasidae.[1][2] The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.[3]
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| Carios vespertilionis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Ixodida |
| Family: | Argasidae |
| Subfamily: | Ornithodorinae |
| Genus: | Carios Latreille, 1796 |
Species
Carios is one of nine genera in the Argasid subfamily Ornithodorinae. The genus currently contains 8 species.[4][1]
- C. (Carios) australiensis (Kohls and Hoogstraal, 1962)
- C. (Carios) daviesi (Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1973)
- C. (Carios) dewae (Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1974)
- C. (Carios) macrodermae (Hoogstraal, Moorhouse, Wolf and Wassef, 1977)
- C. (Carios) pusillus (Kohls, 1950)
- C. (Carios) quadridentatus Heath, 2012
- C. (Carios) sinensis (Jeu and Zhu, 1982)
- C. (Carios) vespertilionis (Latreille, 1796)
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