Margaropus Karsch, 1879 is not closely related to Boophilus Curtice, 1891 (Acari: Ixodidae)

Stephen C. Barker; Samuel Kelava; Anna Murrell; Mingeun Cho; Ernest J.M. Teo; Ryo Nakao; Dmitry A. Apanaskevich

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5569.3.4

Margaropus Karsch, 1879 is not closely related to Boophilus Curtice, 1891 (Acari: Ixodidae)

Stephen C. Barker, Samuel Kelava, Anna Murrell, Mingeun Cho, Ernest J.M. Teo, Ryo Nakao, Dmitry A. Apanaskevich

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Margaropus Karsch, 1879 and Boophilus Curtice, 1891 have been thought to be sister-taxa for over 75 years since these ticks share features like circular spiracles, no festoons, no distinct grooves behind the anus and one-host life cycles. We inferred the first phylogeny with Margaropus from 4,218 bp of mitochondrial (cox 1, 12S) and nuclear DNA (ITS2, 18S rRNA). Margaropus is not the sister-group to Boophilus or even closely related to Boophilus, but rather Margaropus is either the sister-group to, or embedded in, the genus Rhipicephalus.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	477-492
Number of pages	16
Journal	Zootaxa
Volume	5569
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5569.3.4
State	Published - Jan 15 2025

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Acari
phylogeny
taxonomy

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Margaropus Karsch, 1879 is not closely related to Boophilus Curtice, 1891 (Acari: Ixodidae)

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