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Note on Colouration in Ticks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

George H. F. Nuttall
Affiliation:
(From the Quick Laboratory, University of Cambridge.)

Extract

The ornamentation so characteristic in Amblyomma, Aponomma, Dermacentor, and occasionally met with in species of Rhipicephalus and Hyalomma, is of use to the systematist in the differentiation of species. In many descriptions of ornate Ixodidae the colours are referred to as “metallic” owing to the sheen they possess when the ticks are preserved in alcohol.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1913

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