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Ornithodoros erraticus is a complex of species morphologically, biologically and ecologically similar.
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Santos-Silva, M.M., Estrada-Peña, A. (2017). Ornithodoros erraticus complex (Figs. 23 and 24). In: Estrada-Peña, A., Mihalca, A., Petney, T. (eds) Ticks of Europe and North Africa. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63760-0_17
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