Contributions to the morphology and phylogeny of the newly discovered bat tick species, Ixodes ariadnae in comparison with I. vespertilionis and I. simplex


1 Department of Parasitology and Zoology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary

2 Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

3 Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, Szent István University, Gödöll?, Hungary

4 Department of Animal Pathology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

5 SaBio. Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC, CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ciudad Real, Spain

6 Department for Microbiology and Parasitology, Laboratory for Medical Entomology, Institute for Medical Research, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

7 Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA