Bothriocroton

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ixodoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Subclassis: Acari Superordo: Parasitiformes Subordo: Ixodida Superfamilia: Ixodoidea

Familia: Ixodidae
Subfamiliae: Bothriocrotoninae
Genus: Bothriocroton
Species: B. auruginans – B. concolor – B. glebopalma – B. hydrosauri – B. oudemansi – B. tachyglossi – B. undatum

Name

Bothriocroton Keirans, King & Sharrad, 1994

Type species: Bothriocroton glepopalma Keirans, King & Sharrad, 1994

Synonyms

• Aponomma (Bothriocroton) Keirans, King & Sharrad, 1994

References

• Keirans, J.E., King, D.R. & Sharrad, R.D. 1994. Aponomma (Bothriocroton) glebopalma, n. subgen., n. sp., and Amblyomma glauerti n. sp. (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae), parasites of monitor lizards (Varanidae) in Australia. Journal of Medical Entomology 31(1): 132–147.
• Klompen, H.; Dobson, S.J.; Barker, S.C. 2002. A new subfamily, Bothriocrotoninae n. subfam., for the genus Bothriocroton Keirans, King & Sharrad, 1994 status amend. (Ixodida: Ixodidae), and the synonymy of Aponomma Neumann, 1899 with Amblyomma Koch, 1844. Systematic Parasitology, 53 (2): 101–7. DOI: 10.1023/A:1020466007722 pdf
• Beati, L.; Keirans, J.E.; Durden, L.A.; Opiang, M.D. 2008. Bothriocroton oudemansi (Neumann, 1910) n. comb. (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae), an ectoparasite of the western long-beaked echidna in Papua New Guinea: redescription of the male and first description of the female and nymph. Systematic Parasitology, 69 (3): 185–200. DOI: 10.1007/s11230-007-9115-5