Additions to the “annotated checklist of the ticks of Germany”: Ixodes acuminatus and Ixodes inopinatus

Systematic and Applied Acarology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 221-224

  Petney, Trevor N ^a   Moser, Esther ^a   Littwin, Nina ^a   Pfäffle, Miriam ^a   Muders, Senta V ^a   Taraschewski, Horst ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 84934959048     PISSN: 13621971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11158/saa.20.2.9     Document Type: Note

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