Carios capensis

Carios capensis (Neumann, 1901) Host(s) Seabirds: Pterodroma neglecta, Pterodroma nigripennis, Puffinus assimilis, Phaethon rubricauda, Morus serrator, Stictocarbo punctatus punctatus, Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus, Anous stolidus pileatus, Onychoprion fuscatus serratus. Land bird: Porzana tabuensis tabuensis. Distribution World: Widespread on islands of the South Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and occasionally on the mainland between 40 ºN and 45 ºS. Extralimital records in the Northern Hemisphere have been considered doubtful. New Zealand: Somes Island (Wellington Harbour), Cape Kidnappers, Raglan, West Coast, Banks Peninsula. References: Neumann (1901); Dumbleton (1958, 1961); Amerson (1968); Ramsay (1968); Theiler (1971); Heath (1977, 2006 a, 2010 a); Bishop & Heath (1998); Gordon (2010).
Published as part of Heath, Allen C. G., Palma, Ricardo L., Cane, Rachel P. & Hardwick, Scott, 2011, Checklist of New Zealand ticks (Acari: Ixodidae, Argasidae), pp. 55-63 in Zootaxa 2995 on page 58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203775
{"references":["Neumann, L. G. (1901) Revision de la famille des ixodides. Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 14, 249 - 372.","Dumbleton, L. J. (1958) The occurrence of an argasid tick in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Science, 1, 570 - 578.","Dumbleton, L. J. (1961) The ticks (Acarina: Ixodoidea) of sea birds in New Zealand waters. New Zealand Journal of Science, 4, 760 - 769.","Amerson, A. B. (1968) Tick distribution in the Central Pacific as influenced by sea bird movement. Journal of Medical Entomology, 5, 332 - 339.","Ramsay, G. W. (1968) The argasid tick Ornithodoros capensis Neumann, from the Kermadec Islands. New Zealand Entomologist, 4, 32 - 34.","Theiler, G. (1971) Ixodoidea. Pp. 327 - 334. In: van Zinderen Bakker, E. M., Winterbottom, J. M. & Dyer, R. A. (eds), Report on the South African Biological and Geographical Expedition 1965 - 66. A. A. Balkema, Cape Town.","Heath, A. C. G. (1977) Zoogeography of the New Zealand tick fauna. Tuatara, 23, 26 - 38.","Heath, A. C. G. (2006 a) Observations on Ixodes eudyptidis Maskell (Acari: Ixodidae), Ornithodoros capensis Neumann (Acari: Argasidae), and other tick parasites of sea birds in New Zealand. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 11, 131 - 140.","Heath, A. C. G. (2010 a) Checklist of ectoparasites of birds in New Zealand: additions and corrections. Surveillance, 37, 12 - 17.","Bishop, D. M. & Heath, A. C. G. (1998) Checklist of ectoparasites of birds in New Zealand. Surveillance, 25 (Special Issue), 13 - 31.","Gordon, D. P. (ed.) (2010) New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Vo l u m e Tw o. Kingdom Animalia - Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. 528 pp."]}