Margaropus winthemi Karsch, 1879a

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 212

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scientific name	Margaropus winthemi Karsch, 1879a
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An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , and Perissodactyla : Equidae , but they have also been collected from Mammalia (several orders), and Galliformes : Numididae . There are no records of Margaropus winthemi causing human parasitism.

M: Karsch (1879a)

F: Neumann (1907b) , under the name Margaropus lounsburyi , a synonym of Margaropus winthemi

N: Neumann (1907b) , under the name Margaropus lounsbury

L: Bedford (1934); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Neumann (1907b) , under the name Margaropus lounsburyi, Dönitz (1910a) , Hoogstraal (1956a), Arthur (1960a), Gothe (1967), Walker and Laurence (1973), Walker A.R. et al. (2003), Horak et al. (2018)

F: Dönitz (1910a), Hoogstraal (1956a) Arthur (1960a), Gothe (1967), Walker and Laurence (1973), Walker A.R. et al. (2003), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Howard (1908), under the name Margaropus lounsburyi, Gothe (1967)

L: Gothe (1967), Arthur (1975a)

Note: Hoogstraal (1956a) states that the larva and nymph of Margaropus winthemi are undescribed, but no reasons have been found to invalidate the description of the nymph in Neumann (1907b, as Margaropus lounsburyi ) or that of the larva in Bedford (1934).

References

Arthur, D. R. (1960 a) Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part V. On the genera Dermacentor, Anocentor, Cosmiomma & Margaropus. Cambridge University Press, London, 251 pp.

Arthur, D. R. (1975 a) The larvae of some ixodid ticks (Acarina) from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 64, 405 - 421. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300006088

Bedford, G. A. H. (1934) South African ticks. Part I. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Industry, 2, 49 - 99.

Donitz, W. (1910 a) Die Zecken Sudafrikas. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena, 16, 397 - 494.

Gothe, R. (1967) Ticks in the South African zoological survey collection. Part XII - The genera Boophilus Curtice, 1891 and Margaropus Karsch, 1879. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Science, 34, 81 - 108.

Hoogstraal, H. (1956 a) African Ixodoidea. I. Ticks of the Sudan (with special reference to Equatoria Province and with preliminary reviews of the genera Boophilus, Margaropus and Hyalomma). Research Report NM 005 050.29. 07. Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington D. C., 1101 pp.

Horak, I. G., Heyne, H., Williams, R., Gallivan, G. J., Spickett, A., Bezuidenhout, J. D. & Estrada-Pena, A. (2018) The ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of southern Africa. Springer, Cham, 676 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 70642 - 9

Howard, C. W. (1908) A list of the ticks of South Africa, with descriptions and keys to all the forms known. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 1, 73 - 169. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 84612

Karsch, F. (1879 a) Zwei neue Arachniden des Berliner Museums. Mitteilungen der Munchener Entomologischen Vereins, 3, 95 - 96.

Neumann, L. G. (1907 b) Notes sur les Ixodides. V. Archives de Parasitologie, 11, 215 - 232.

Walker, J. B. & Laurence, B. R. (1973) Margaropus wileyi sp. nov. (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae), a new species of tick from the reticulated giraffe. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 40, 13 - 21.