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Before the work of Hoogstraal and colleagues in the 1960s and 1970s, there was considerable confusion as to the taxonomic definition, distribution, ecology and biology of A. persicus due to confusion with a variety of other species. Records prior to 1970, particularly those from outside of the currently known range of this species, should therefore be treated sceptically.
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Pfäffle, M.P., Petney, T.N. (2017). Argas persicus (Oken, 1818) (Figs. 2 and 3). 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_4
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