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The “tropical lineage” of the brown dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato identified as Rhipicephalus linnaei ( )
11 Mar 2021
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The brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus) parasitises dogs. Over the past decade, two distinct lineages have been recognised - R. sanguineus sensu lato "temperate lineage" and R. sanguineus sensu lato "tropical lineage". The nominal taxon R. sanguineus (Latreille, 1806) was recently associated with the "temperate lineage". We here identify the "tropical lineage" as Rhipicephalus linnaei (Audouin, 1826) using...
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