Argasidae

[ahr-gas´ĭ-de]

a family of arthropods, the soft ticks.

Ar·gas·i·dae

(ar-gas'i-dē),

Family of ticks (superfamily Ixodoidea, order Acarina), the soft ticks, so-called because of their wrinkled, leathery, tuberculated appearance that fills out when the tick is engorged with blood. Argasidae contains four genera: Argas, Ornithodoros, Otobius, and Antricola; argasid ticks, chiefly species of Ornithodoros, harbor and transmit spirochetes of the genus Borrelia that cause relapsing fever in birds and mammals.

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Ar·gas·i·dae

(ahr-gas'i-dē)

Family of soft ticks, so called because of their wrinkled appearance, which fills out when the tick is engorged with blood. Argasid ticks, chiefly species of Ornithodoros, harbor and transmit spirochetes of the genus Borrelia that cause relapsing fever in birds and mammals.

[G. argas, idle, nonproductive, useless]

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The Systematics of Subfamily Ornithodorinae (Acarina: Argasidae) II.

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In order to determine distribution and seasonal activity of Argasidae ticks in the study areas, a tick survey was carried out from the winter of 2002 until December 2003.

Epidemiological study on tick-borne (Acari: Argasidae) relapsing fever in Kurdistan Province, Iran, 2000-2004

Dunya genelinde bulunan kene tur sayisi ve turlerine gore dagilimi Ortalama Familya Genus tur sayisi Ixodidae Ixodes 245 Amblyomma 131 Bothriocroton * 5 Haemaphysalis * 164 Hyalomma * 24 Nosomma 1 Anomalohimalaya 3 Cosmiomma 1 Dermacentor * 34 Margaropus 3 Rhipicentor 2 Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) * 5 Rhipicephalus 74 Nuttalliellidae Nuttalliella 1 Argasidae Argas * 58 Carios 88 Ornithodoros * 35 Otobius 3 Laelaptidae Gammaridacarus 1 Toplam 878 * Ulkemizde gorulen kene turleri Tablo 3.

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Ticks that transmit disease to animals and humans can be divided into two groups: the hard ticks (Ixodidae) (Figure 4-1) and the soft ticks (Argasidae).

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