I. Horak

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Ticks of domestic animals in Africa: a guide to identification of species
The Hard Ticks of the World
The Argasidae, Ixodidae and Nuttalliellidae (Acari: Ixodida): A World List of Valid Tick Names
TLDR
The world's argasid tick fauna comprises 183 species in four genera, namely Argas, Carios, Ornithodoros and Otobius in the family Argasidae and the genus Boophilus becoming a subgenus of the genus Rhipicephalus.
Paramphistomiasis of domestic ruminants.
  • I. Horak
  • Biology, Medicine
    Advances in parasitology
  • 1971
The Argasidae, Ixodidae and Nuttalliellidae (Acari: Ixodida) of the world: a list of valid species names
This work is intended as a consensus list of valid tick names, following recent revisionary studies, wherein we recognize 896 species of ticks in 3 families. The Nuttalliellidae is monotypic,…
The genus Hyalomma Koch, 1844: v. re-evaluation of the taxonomic rank of taxa comprising the H. (Euhyalomma) marginatum koch complex of species (Acari: Ixodidae) with redescription of all parasitic…
Abstract The systematic morphology of species within the Hyalomma (Euhyalomma) marginatum Koch complex of ticks is illustrated and their relationships within this assemblage are discussed.…
Boophilus microplus ticks found in West Africa
Early in 2007, during a small-scale survey of the ticks infesting cattle in Azaguie about 50 km north of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, ticks, belonging to a species which to our knowledge had never been…
The Known Distribution and Ecological Preferences of the Tick Subgenus Boophilus (Acari: Ixodidae) in Africa and Latin America
A compilation of the known distribution of Boophilus ticks in Africa and Latin America is presented, together with details on climate preferences. B. annulatus is recorded mainly in the western part…
Parasites of domestic and wild animals in South Africa. I. Oestrus ovis in sheep.
  • I. Horak
  • Biology, Medicine
    The Onderstepoort journal of veterinary research
  • 1 June 1977
TLDR
The following life cycle ofr Oestrus ovis is suggested: sheep are repeatedly infested from October-June; thereafter infestation survives in the sheeps' heads until August, mainly as 1st instar larvae, then as pupae and larvae until fresh infestation takes place during October.
Species composition and geographic distribution of ticks infesting cattle, goats and dogs in a temperate and in a subtropical region of south-east Africa.
The species and distribution of ticks infesting cattle, goats and dogs in the eastern region of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa and Maputo Province, Mozambique were determined from…
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