Chiropterargas
Genus of ticks
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Chiropterargas is a genus of soft ticks in the family Argasidae.[1]
| Chiropterargas | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Ixodida |
| Family: | Argasidae |
| Subfamily: | Ornithodorinae |
| Genus: | Chiropterargas Hoogstraal, 1955 |
| Type species | |
| Chiropterargas boueti (Roubaud and Colas-Belcour, 1933) | |
Species
Chiropterargas is one of nine genera in the Argasid subfamily Ornithodorinae. The genus currently contains four species:[2][1]
- C. (Chiropterargas) boueti (Roubaud & Colas-Belcour, 1933)
- C. (Chiropterargas) ceylonensis (Hoogstraal & Kaiser, 1968)
- C. (Chiropterargas) confusus (Hoogstraal, 1955)
- C. (Chiropterargas) cordiformis (Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1967)
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