Aponomma

Aponomma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Ixodida
Family:	Ixodidae
Genus:	Aponomma; Lahille, 1905

Aponomma is a former, now defunct, genus of ticks belonging to the family Ixodidae.^[1]

The genus was fragmented in 1972, with the proposal of three distinct groups.^[2] In 1999, nuclear rDNA analysis demonstrated that the genus was polyphyletic, and following this finding, the genus was redistributed. Today, the former member species constitute the Archaeocroton, Robertsicus, Bothriocroton and Amblyomma genera.^[3]^[4]^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Klompen, Hans; Dobson, Susan J.; Barker, Stephen C. (2002-10-01). "A new subfamily, Bothriocrotoninae n. subfam., for the genus Bothriocroton Keirans, King & Sharrad, 1994 status amend. (Ixodida: Ixodidae), and the synonymy of Aponomma Neumann, 1899 with Amblyomma Koch, 1844". Systematic Parasitology. 53 (2): 101–107. doi:10.1023/A:1020466007722. ISSN 1573-5192. PMID 12386418.
^ "Book: A revision of the genus Aponomma Neumann, 1899 (Acarina: Ixodidae). Ph.D. thesis". mbd-db.osu.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
^ Burger, Thomas D.; Shao, Renfu; Barker, Stephen C. (June 2013). "Phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial genomes and nuclear rRNA genes of ticks reveals a deep phylogenetic structure within the genus Haemaphysalis and further elucidates the polyphyly of the genus Amblyomma with respect to Amblyomma sphenodonti and Amblyomma elaphense". Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases. 4 (4): 265–274. doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.02.002. ISSN 1877-9603. PMID 23602360.
^ Barker, Stephen C.; Burger, Thomas D. (2018-10-18). "Two new genera of hard ticks, Robertsicus n. gen. and Archaeocroton n. gen., and the solution to the mystery of Hoogstraal's and Kaufman's "primitive" tick from the Carpathian Mountains". Zootaxa. 4500 (4): 543–552. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4500.4.4. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 30486049.

[:0-1] Klompen, Hans; Dobson, Susan J.; Barker, Stephen C. (2002-10-01). "A new subfamily, Bothriocrotoninae n. subfam., for the genus Bothriocroton Keirans, King & Sharrad, 1994 status amend. (Ixodida: Ixodidae), and the synonymy of Aponomma Neumann, 1899 with Amblyomma Koch, 1844". Systematic Parasitology. 53 (2): 101–107. doi:10.1023/A:1020466007722. ISSN 1573-5192. PMID 12386418.

[2] "Book: A revision of the genus Aponomma Neumann, 1899 (Acarina: Ixodidae). Ph.D. thesis". mbd-db.osu.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-02.

[3] Burger, Thomas D.; Shao, Renfu; Barker, Stephen C. (June 2013). "Phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial genomes and nuclear rRNA genes of ticks reveals a deep phylogenetic structure within the genus Haemaphysalis and further elucidates the polyphyly of the genus Amblyomma with respect to Amblyomma sphenodonti and Amblyomma elaphense". Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases. 4 (4): 265–274. doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.02.002. ISSN 1877-9603. PMID 23602360.

[4] Barker, Stephen C.; Burger, Thomas D. (2018-10-18). "Two new genera of hard ticks, Robertsicus n. gen. and Archaeocroton n. gen., and the solution to the mystery of Hoogstraal's and Kaufman's "primitive" tick from the Carpathian Mountains". Zootaxa. 4500 (4): 543–552. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4500.4.4. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 30486049.

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