Three new species of Antricola (Acari: Argasidae) from Brazil, with a key to the known species in the genus

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 490-498

  Estrada Peña, Agustín ^a   Venzal, Jose Manuel ^a,b   Barros Battesti, Darci Moraes ^a,c   Onofrio, Valeria Castilho ^a,c   Trajano, Eleanora ^a,d   Firmino, João Victor Lima ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; CAVE; CUTICLE; GUANO; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; TICK;

ACARI; ANTRICOLA; ANTRICOLA DELACRUZI; ANTRICOLA GUGLIELMONEI; ANTRICOLA INEXPECTATA; ARTICLE; BAT; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; FEMALE; GENUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; TICK; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; FECES; PARASITOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

ACARI; ANTRICOLA; ARGASIDAE;

ANIMALS; ARGASIDAE; BRAZIL; CHIROPTERA; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING;

EID: 3142736306     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-172R     Document Type: Article

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