22 Genus Argas 



Wales: specimens in the collection of the Department of Mines and 

 Agriculture were examined by Neumann (1901, p. 255; see also 

 Fuller, 1896, 1897, p. 590). S. Australia: Michael (1892, p. 202) 

 received live specimens from Adelaide, and Nuttall (1906) received live 

 specimens from the same place, sent by Dr E. A. Johnson. In all places 

 it infests fowls. According to Froggatt (1906, p. 14) it was introduced 

 from America into N. S. Wales and has since spread over all the south- 

 western towns. 



Habitats : When A. persicus abandons its host, be it bird or man, it 

 retreats into the crevices in the walls of the chicken house or dwelling 

 to digest its food, undergo its metamorphosis or to oviposit, etc. 

 Schanph (published by Packard, 1895, p. 418) in Texas found them 

 retreating into the cracks and under the bark of trees upon which 

 chickens roosted. 



N.B. For Seasonal Prevalence, General Biology, Effects of bite and 

 part played in Pathology, see Section II. 



ARGAS REFLEXUS (Fabricius) Latreille, 1796. 



Figs. 27—33, PL I, Figs. 1, 2. 



Synonymy: Acarus reflexus Fabricius, 1794, p. 426 ; 1805, p. 353. 

 Acarus marginatum Fabricius, 1794, p. 427 ; 1805, p. 354. 

 Ixodes reflexus Fabricius in Latreille, 1829 b, p. 288. 

 Argas reflexus (Fabricius) Latreille, 1796, p. 178 ; 1829b, p. 288. 

 Rhynchoprion columbae Hermann, 1804, p. 69, No. 1 ; also Fabricius, 1805, 



p. 356. 

 Argas magnus Neumann, 1896, p. 14, degraded to A. reflexus var. magnus 



Neumann, 1905, p. 239. 

 Argus reflexus in Fullager, 1874 a, p. 86. 

 Common name: Pigeon tick, Taubenzecke (Ger.) ; Schellack (1908, p. 487) states 



that the larva is known as the " Lederwanze " by pigeon fanciers in Germany. 



Iconography: Latreille, 1796, PI. VI, Fig. 3.— Hermann, 1804, PI. IV (coloured), 

 Figs. 10, 11, N and 0, dorsal and ventral aspects, capitulum and tarsus (very 

 crude figures). — Duges, Ant., and Milne Edwards, PI. 27, Fig. 2 (poor). — 

 Gerstaecker, 1860, PI. XV, Figs. 1-6.— Pagenstecher, 1861, PI. I.— Bianconi, 

 1867, figured the larva and its capitulum (part seen dorsally) and the capitulum of 

 the "adult" in ventral aspect. Figures sketchy. — Fullager, J., 1874 a, p. 122, 

 Fig. 86 ; inaccurate figure of tarsi corrected in author's paper of later date 1874 b, 

 p. 234, Fig. 164. He also gives other figures. — Megnin, 1880, Fig. 45, same as 

 following : 1892, p. 64, Figs. 5-7, ? dorsal and ventral aspects, capitulum (very 

 poor figures). — Taschenberg, 1880, p. 152, Fig. 39, small sketch, side view 

 (poor figure, reproduced by v. Linstow (?)). — Claus, 1887, Fig. 444, sexual 

 organs, after Pagenstecher, 1861.—Berlese, 1888, fasc. XLVII, No. 5. 



