Alloceraea

Alloceraea is a genus of hard ticks.^[1] Member species parasitise a wide variety of hosts, but particularly bovids, cervids and birds.^[2] The genus is found in the Oriental and Nearctic zoogeographic regions, in tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf and conifer forests.^[3] Formerly a subgenus of Haemaphysalis, the taxon was elevated to generic rank in 2024.^[1]

Ixodidae Prostriata Ixodes Metastriata Robertsicus Amblyocephalus Amblyomma Dermacentor Rhipicentor Hyalomma Rhipicephalus Haematobothrion Cryptocroton Bothriocroton Archaeocroton Alloceraea Haemaphysalis

Ixodidae cladogram after Barker et al., (2024)[4]

Alloceraea
Alloceraea inermis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Ixodida
Family:	Ixodidae
Genus:	Alloceraea Schulze, 1919
Type species
Alloceraea inermis (Birula, 1895)

Species

• Alloceraea aponommoides (Warburton, 1913)
• Alloceraea colasbelcouri (Santos Dias, 1958)
• Alloceraea inermis (Birula, 1895)
• Alloceraea kitaokai (Hoogstraal, 1969)
• Alloceraea kolonini (Du, Sun, Xu and Shao, 2018)
• Alloceraea primitiva (Teng, 1982)

• †Alloceraea cretacea^[a] (Chitimia-Dobler, Pfeffer & Dunlop, 2018) Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian ~99 million years ago.^[5]

1. While this fossilied specimen was characterised as a Haemaphysalis (Alloceraea), and is thusly included in Alloceraea, Kelava et al. (2024) make clear that the poor quality of the specimen prevents confident morphological association with Alloceraea, or even Haemaphysalis.