Ixodklae: Genus Hyalomma 



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(b) Longirostrata. 

 Group 1. 



Genus (8) Hyalomma: ornamentation absent or present, at times 

 confined to the legs ; with eyes, with or without festoons, with long palps 

 (shorter in Hyalomma monstrosum £ ) and basis capituli subtriangular 

 dorsally. The ? approaching Amblyomma. The £ with a pair of 

 adanal shields, and with or without accessory adanal shields and two 

 •posterior abdominal protrusions capped by chitinized points. Coxa I 

 bifid. Spiracles comma-shaped. Figs. 132, 133. 



Type species : Hyalomma aegyptium (Linnaeus). 



HYALOMMA 



CH/i+taJUisui 





p&xU&l/gA 



Fig. 132. Hyal. aegyptium (Linn.), t : dorsum and venter (from Warb. and Nutt. 1909, 



G. H.F.N. andE.W. del.). 



Fig. 133. Hyal. aegyptium (Linn.), ? : capitulum in dorsal and ventral aspects. (Original, 



G. H.F.N, del.) 



