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Argas vespertilionis (Latreille, 1796) (Figs. 8 and 9)

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Hoogstraal (1958) and Filippova (1966) provide detailed descriptions of the morphology of the different stages of A. vespertilionis.

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  1. State Museum of Natural History, Erbprinzenstr. 13, 76133, Karlsruhe, Germany

    T. N. Petney

  2. Medical Entomology Unit, Department of Organismal Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    T. G. T. Jaenson

  3. Department of Ecology and Parasitology, Institute of Zoology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    M. P. Pfäffle

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Petney, T.N., Jaenson, T.G.T., Pfäffle, M.P. (2017). Argas vespertilionis (Latreille, 1796) (Figs. 8 and 9). 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_8

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