Margaropus
| Margaropus | |
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| Dorsal view of Margaropus female, with inset of male posterior below | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Ixodida |
| Family: | Ixodidae |
| Genus: | Margaropus Ferdinand Karsch, 1879 |
| Type species | |
| Margaropus winthemi | |
Margaropus is a genus of ticks.[2] Found in Africa, the genus is known best from Giraffidae.
Margaropus ticks are characterised as inornate, having eyes, lacking festoons, and with the legs of the male increasing in size from pair I to IV with the segments enlarged, giving them a beaded appearance, from which the genus name was taken, margaritopus signifying beady-legged.[3]
In their native range, Margaropus species ticks parasitize larger land animals, including the three largest southern African wild ruminants, giraffes, Giraffa camelopardalis; African buffaloes, Syncerus caffer; and common eland, Taurotragus oryx.[4]
Although the genus is no longer considered a sister taxa to Boophilus, it may be a subgenus of, or the sister taxa to, Rhipicephalus.[5]
Species
[edit]The genus currently includes three species:[6]
- Margaropus reidi Hoogstraal 1956 - the Sudanese beady-legged tick[7]
- Margaropus wileyi Walker & Laurence 1973 - the East African giraffe tick[8]
- Margaropus winthemi Karsch 1879 - the South African winter horse tick or beady-legged tick[2] [a]
Notes
[edit]- ^ The species name memorialises naturalist and entomologist Wilhelm von Winthem.
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Guglielmone, A. A., et al. (2010). The Argasidae, Ixodidae and Nuttalliellidae (Acari: Ixodida) of the world: A list of valid species names. Zootaxa (2528), 1-28.
- ^ a b Ferdinand Karsch. 1879. Zwei neue Arachniden des Berliner Museums. Mittheilungen des Münchener Entomologischen Verein, 3:95-96.
- ^ Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner. ticks a monograph of the ixodiodea. CUP Archive.
- ^ Horak, I. G; Golezardy, H; Uys, A. C (2007). "Ticks associated with the three largest wild ruminant species in southern Africa". The Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research. 74 (3): 231–42. doi:10.4102/ojvr.v74i3.126. hdl:2263/5133. PMID 17933365.
- ^ Barker, S.C., Kelava, S., Murrell, A., Cho, M., Teo, E.J.M., Nakao, R. & Apanaskevich, D.A. (2025) Margaropus Karsch, 1879 is not closely related to Boophilus Curtice, 1891 (Acari: Ixodidae). Zootaxa, 5569 (3), 477–492. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5569.3.4
- ^ Guglielmone, Alberto A.; Petney, Trevor N.; Robbins, Richard G. (2020-11-05). "Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019". Zootaxa. 4871 (1): 1–322. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ H. Hoogstraal. 1956. African Ixodoidea. I. Ticks of the Sudan (with special reference to Equatoria Province and with preliminary reviews of the genera Boophilus, Margaropus and Hyalomma). Research Report NM 005050.29.07, Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington D.C. 1101 pp.
- ^ Jane B. Walker and B. R. Laurence. 1973. Margaropus wileyi sp. nov. (Ixodoidea: Ixodidae), a New Species of Tick from the Reticulated Giraffe. Onderstpoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 40(1):13-22; https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/53664/3walker1973.pdf?sequence=1, accessed June 30, 2018.