Margaropus reidi
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| Margaropus reidi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Ixodida |
| Family: | Ixodidae |
| Genus: | Margaropus |
| Species: | M. reidi |
| Binomial name | |
| Margaropus reidi Hoogstraal, 1956 | |
Margaropus reidi, the Sudanese beady-legged tick, is an ixodid tick that is parasitic on the Northern giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)[1][2][3] It is one of only three species in the genus Margaropus.[2]
The type specimens were collected in Liednhom (or Lietnhom) on the south bank of the Jur River, and at Guar, in the Gual-Nyang Forest, Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan.[4][1][2]
Description
First described by entomologist and parasitologist Harry Hoogstraal,[5] M. reidi are small ticks, approximately 3.0 mm (0.12 inch) in length and 1.4 mm (0.05 inch) in width.[1] They are dark reddish brown in color, with yellowish legs.[1] M. reidi differs from the other two Margaropus species in that the setae around the posterior end of its body form a continuous fringe and, in comparison to Margaropus winthemi and Margaropus wileyi, its anal plates are more bluntly pointed.[2]
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