Argas miniatus

Argas (Persicargas) miniatus was detected from chickens in Gasparee Island, Trinidad (Kohls et al. 1970). This is a common parasite of chickens in Neotropical countries which might have sometimes been misidentified as A. persicus . Many reports of A. persicus, a Palearctic species found on poultry in the Neotropics, may actually represent misidentifications of A. miniatus or another related species (Kohls et al. 1970).

Argas miniatus is known to transmit Borrelia anserina (Borreliosis) (Jongejan and Uilenberg 2004) .

Distribution: Brazil, Guyana, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba (Guglielmone et al. 2003), Mexico (Hoffman and Lopez Campo 2000), USA, Peru (Cruz 2001).