Hyalomma
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| Hyalomma marginatum specimen in alcohol | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Subclass: | Acari |
| Superorder: | Parasitiformes |
| Order: | Ixodida |
| Family: | Ixodidae |
| Subfamily: | Hyalomminae |
| Genus: | Hyalomma |
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Hyalomma is a genus of hard-bodied ticks, common in Asia, Europe, and North Africa. They are also found in Southern Africa. The bites cause the surrounding tissue to die and become necrotic. The dead tissue falls out of the body after a few days. The wounds look very serious, but usually heal without any intervention and do not generally become infected any further.
The species of this genus are ascribed with spreading the virus that causes the life-threatening Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.
Species
- Hyalomma aegyptium Linnaeus, 1758
- Hyalomma albiparmatum Schulze, 1919
- Hyalomma arabica Pegram, Hoogstraal & Wassef, 1982
- Hyalomma brevipunctata Sharif, 1928
- Hyalomma dromedarii Koch 1844
- Hyalomma erythraeum Tonelli-Rondelli, 1932
- Hyalomma franchinii Tonelli-Rondelli, 1932
- Hyalomma hussaini Sharif, 1928
- Hyalomma hystricis Dhanda & Raja, 1974
- Hyalomma impeltatum Schulze & Schlottke, 1930
- Hyalomma impressum Koch 1844
- Hyalomma kumari Sharif, 1928
- Hyalomma lusitanicum Koch, 1844
- Hyalomma marginatum Koch 1844
- Hyalomma nitidum Schulze, 1919
- Hyalomma punt Hoogstraal, Kaiser & Pedersen, 1969
- Hyalomma rhipicephaloides Neumann, 1901
- Hyalomma schulzei Olenev 1931
- Hyalomma scupense Schulze, 1919 [1]
- Hyalomma sinaii Feldman-Muhsam, 1960
- Hyalomma truncatum Koch 1844
- Hyalomma turanicum Pomerantsev, 1946
References
- ↑ Gharbi, M.; Darghouth, M.A. (2014). "A review of Hyalomma scupense (Acari, Ixodidae) in the Maghreb region: from biology to control.". Parasite 21: 2. doi:10.1051/parasite/2014002. PMC 3917376. PMID 24507485.
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