Tags: Arachnid.

Ornithodoros is a genus in the soft-bodied tick family Argasidae. The Linnean name derives from ornithos (Greek: ὄρνιθος) and doros (Greek: Δωρόν) meaning bird and gift respectively. It contains the following species:

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class
Arachnid, Acari
family
Argasidae
kingdom
Animal
order
Tick
phylum
Chelicerata, Arthropod
synonym
*Microargas (Hoogstraal & Kohls 1966), *Ornamentum (Clifford Kohls & Sonenshine 1964), *Pavlovskyella (Klompen & Oliver 1993), *Reticulinasus (Schulze 1941), *Theriodoros (Pospelova-Shtrom 1950), *Proknekalia (Keirans Hoogstraal & Clifford 1977)

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