Argas pusillus Kohls, 1950

Petney, Trevor N., Boulanger, Nathalie, Saijuntha, Weerachai, Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia, Pfeffer, Martin, Eamudomkarn, Chatanun, Andrews, Ross H., Ahamad, Mariana, Putthasorn, Noppadon, Muders, Senta V., Petney, David A. & Robbins, Richard G., 2019, Ticks (Argasidae, Ixodidae) and tick-borne diseases of continental Southeast Asia, Zootaxa 4558 (1), pp. 1-89 : 13

Argas pusillus Kohls, 1950

This poorly studied bat tick occurs in the Australasian, Oriental and Palearctic Regions ( Camicas et al. 1998). It was first described by Kohls (1950) from the Philippines and has since been recorded from the ceiling of a house in peninsular Malaysia ( Audy et al. 1960), and from bats in Singapore ( Leong et al. 2010) and Thailand ( Uchikawa and Kobayashi 1978). Heath (2012) provides a table comparing the morphometrics of A. pusillus with other species from the Oriental and Australasian Regions.

Descriptions of the male and larva are available in Kohls (1950).