Explore: Argas Persicus

Argas persicus, also known as fowl tick or poultry tick, is a small soft-bodied tick that is found primarily on domestic fowl such as chickens, ducks,

Argas is a genus of tick. Argas abdussalami Hoogstraal & McCarthy, 1965 Argas acinus Whittick, 1938 Argas africolumbae Hoogstraal, Kaiser, Walker, Ledger

confined to cattle housing in zero-grazing systems.[citation needed] Argas persicus, the fowl tick, is a major pest of poultry birds. The tampan ticks within

officially named Argas Persicus Ltd, and it is trading as Topdeck Travel. The name was a reference to the turkey tick (Argas persicus), due to the founders

conducted research of yellow fever in Brazil. With Marchoux, he identified Argas persicus as the vector of avian spirochaetosis. In 1910 he participated on a

Quaranfil and Nyamanini viruses, and the inability of the fowl argasid Argas persicus (which also parasitizes wild birds) to transmit St. Louis encephalitis

common mite found on sparrows is Proctophyllodes, the most common ticks are Argas reflexus and Ixodes arboricola, and the most common flea on the house sparrow

not yet understood completely. Soft ticks are belongs to Argasidae. Argas persicus Ornithodoros savignyi Otobius megnini Barker, S. C.; Murrell, A. (2004)