font settings and languages

Font Size: Large | Normal | Small
Font Face: Verdana | Geneva | Georgia
Languages:

Argas persicus

(Bluebug)

Interesting Facts

[ Back to top ]
 

Common Names

[ Back to top ]

Click on the language to view common names.

Common Names in Afrikaans:

Fowl Tampan, Hoendertampan, Tampan, Wandluis

Common Names in English:

Bluebug, Fowl Tick, Persian Poultry Argas, Poultry Tick

Common Names in French:

Tique Des Volailles

Common Names in Spanish:

Argas De Los Pollos De Persia, Garrapatas De Las Gallinas

Common Names in Unknown:

Bhebguez, Garibguez, Guerib-Guez, Mall, Mialleh De Mianeh, Mian, Miana Bug, Punaise De Miana, Shebgaz

Description

[ Back to top ]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,200 meters (0 to 7,218 feet).[1]

Taxonomy

[ Back to top ]

Synonyms

Acarus persicus Manson • Argas (Persicargas) Persicus Kaiser • Argas americanus firmatus Neumann • Argas mauritanius Guérin- Méneville • Argas miniatus firmatus Neumann • Argas persicus firmata Neumann • Argas persicus persicus Fischer Von Waldheim • Argas victoriensis Sweet • Hoogstraal & Kohls • Rhynochoprion persicum Oken

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 03-Jan-2004

Similar Species

[ Back to top ]

Members of the genus Argas

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 19 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. arboreus (Egyptian Heron Rookery Argasid) · A. cooleyi (Cliff Swallow Tick) · A. cucumerinus (Peruvian Cucumiform Argasid) · A. dalei (Dale´s Peruvian Burrowing-Owl Argasid) · A. lagenoplastis (Australian Fairy Martin Argasid) · A. magnus (Ecuadorian Pyriform Argasid) · A. miniatus (Chicken Tick) · A. neghmei (Neghme´s South American Bird Argasid) · A. persicus (Bluebug) · A. radiatus (North American Bird Argas) · A. reflexus (African Bird Argasid) · A. robertsi (Robert's Australian Bird Argasid) · A. sanchezi (Adobe Tick) · A. streptopelia (African Dove Argasid) · A. theilerae (Theiler's African White-Backed Vulture Argasid) · A. transgariepinus (Secretive Bat-Argas) · A. vansomereni (Van Someren's Kenya Swallow-Nest Argasid) · A. walkerae (Southern Fowl Tampan) · A. zumpti (Zumpt's South African Cape-Vulture Argasid)

More Info

[ Back to top ]

Further Reading

[ Back to top ]

Notes

[ Back to top ]

Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Mean = 914.690 meters (3,000.951 feet), Standard Deviation = 832.310 based on 26 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/21/2012