Argas beijingensis

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 Ordo: Ixodida Superfamilia: Ixodoidea

Familia: Argasidae
Subfamilia: Argasinae
Genus: Argas
Species: Argas beijingensis

Name

Argas beijingensis Teng, 1983

• Type host: specimens collected in roosts of Columba livia Gmelin, 1789
• Type locality: Shijing Mountain, region of Beijing, China (collected on 5 April 1955)

Primary references

• Teng, K.-F. 1983: Notes on Chinese ticks of the subgenus Argas (Acarina: Argasidae: Argas). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, Beijing, 8: 255–261. [in Chinese]
  In English: NAMRU-3-T1775. Translated by Fu-Meei Yeh Robbins. Forwarded to Hoogstraal by Richard G. Robbins, National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC, USA.