Genus. Margaropus, Karsch.
Margaropus annulatus australis, Fuller.
The so-called Australian cattle tick. Newstead[344] reports this as a great pest to man in Jamaica in its larval stage. Its chief hosts are cattle, horses, goats, sheep, dogs and rabbits.
Margaropus microplus, Canestrini.
Recorded by Aragão (Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, 1911, iii, fasc. 2, p. 163) as occurring in larval stage on man in Brazil.
Genus. Rhipicephalus, Koch.
Rhipicephalus sanguineus, Latreille, 1804.
Syn.: Ixodes sanguineus, Latr., 1804; I. rufus, Koch, 1844; Rhipicephalus limbatus, Koch, 1844; Rh. siculus, Koch, 1844; Rh. stigmaticus, Gerstäcker, 1873.
Spread over almost the entire tropical and sub-tropical regions, occurring in Europe in the South of France and in Italy; it infests dogs and more rarely sheep; oxen, cats, foxes and human beings are also attacked.[345]
Neumann’s Table of Species of Argas.