Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 5253 No. 1: 8 Mar. 2023
Type: Monograph
Published: 2023-03-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5253.1.1
Page range: 1-670
Abstract views: 828
PDF downloaded: 104

Ticks of Australasia: 125 species of ticks in and around Australia

Department of Parasitology, School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Old, 4072, Australia.
Department of Parasitology, School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Old, 4072, Australia.
Acari Ixodida Ixodidae Argasidae illustrated diagnostic guide

Abstract

The present work is an update and a substantial expansion of Barker & Walker (2014). Barker & Walker (2014) dealt with 16 species of particular importance to domestic animals and humans whereas the present work deals with all 125 of the species known from Australasia; that is Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, Sulawesi, and the islands of the western Pacific. These comprise 102 species of ixodid (hard) ticks and 23 species of argasid (soft) ticks.

References

  1. Andrews, R.H., Beveridge, I., Bull, C.M., Chilton, N.B., Dixon, B. & Petney, T. (2006) Systematic status of Aponomma tachyglossi Roberts (Acari: Ixodidae) from echidnas, Tachyglossus aculeatus, from Queensland, Australia. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 11, 23–29.

  2. Barker, D. (2019) Ixodes barkeri n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae) from the short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus, with a revised key to the male Ixodes of Australia, and list of the subgenera and species of Ixodes known to occur in Australia. Zootaxa, 4658, 331–342.

  3. Barker, S.C. & Walker, A.R. (2014) Ticks of Australia. The species that infest domestic animals and humans. Zootaxa, 3816, 1–144.

  4. Barker, S.C. & Barker, D. (2023) Ticks of Australasia. Zootaxa, 5253, 1–670.

  5. Roberts, F.H.S. (1970) Ticks of Australia. CSIRO, Melbourne, 267 pp.