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Carios

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Carios
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Carios is a genus of soft ticks belonging to the family Argasidae.[1] The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.[2]

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Species

Carios is one of nine genera in the Argasid subfamily Ornithodorinae. The genus currently contains 8 species.[3][1]

  • C. (Carios) australiensis Kohls and Hoogstraal, 1962
  • C. (Carios) daviesi Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1973
  • C. (Carios) dewae Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1974
  • C. (Carios) macrodermae Hoogstraal, Moorhouse, Wolf and Wassef, 1977
  • C. (Carios) pusillus Kohls, 1950
  • C. (Carios) quadridentatus Heath, 2012
  • C. (Carios) sinensis Jeu and Zhu, 1982
  • C. (Carios) vespertilionis (Latreille, 1796)
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