Two New Species of Ornithodoros from the GalÁPagos Islands (Acrina: Argasidae)
- 1 January 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Medical Entomology
- Vol. 6 (1) , 75-78
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/6.1.75
Abstract
Ornithodoros darwini is described from larvae from marine iguana, Amblyrhynchus cristatus, and land lizard, Conolophus. sp., and from vegetation, Narborough, Indefatigable, Plaza and Barrington Is. Also described is O. galapagensis from larvae from A. cristatus and lava lizard, Tropidurus albemarlensis, Narborough and Indefatigable Is., and from larvae found in the gullet of a Galápagos finch, Geospiza fuliginosa, shot while picking at the skin of a marine iguana on Indefatigable I.Keywords
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