Margaropus
Sign in to saveMargaropus is a genus of ticks. Found in Africa, the genus is known best from Giraffidae.
Species
South African Winter Horse Tick
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderIxodida
- FamilyIxodidae
Observations0
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Collections
- OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ACAROLOGY LABORATORY, COLUMBUS, OH (OSAL)
- Recorded in
- South Africa
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Margaropus is a genus of ticks. Found in Africa, the genus is known best from Giraffidae.
Margaropus ticks are characterised as inornate, having eyes, lacking festoons, and with the legs of the male increasing in size from pair I to IV with the segments enlarged, giving them a beaded appearance, from which the genus name was taken, margaritopus signifying beady-legged.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Margaropus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.