by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 20, 2014
Ornithodorostalaje (Guèrin-Méneville, 1849) Neumann, 1911 (Figure 5-1) ETYMOLOGY: Ornitho = bird and doros = leather bag; along with talaje for SYNONYMS:Argastalaje Guèrin-Méneville, 1849; Alectorobiustalaje (Guèrin-Méneville, 1849) Pocock, 1907. HISTORY:Ornithodorus...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 20, 2014
ARGASIDAE Argasid or soft ticks are obligate ectoparasites of a wide variety of flying and land vertebrates. Most soft ticks reside in the dens, burrows, caves, and nests of their hosts and require multiple hosts to complete the prolonged, physiologically slow...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 20, 2014
METASTIGMATA The Metastigmata represents the ticks and mites. The Mestastigmata tend to be over 2 mm in length as adults. The respiratory openings, stigmata, are without peritremes and near the base of the fourth pair of legs. This group is divided into three...
