Ornithodoros kelleyi

Ornithodoros kelleyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Subclass:	Acari
Order:	Ixodida
Family:	Argasidae
Genus:	Ornithodoros
Species:	O. kelleyi
Binomial name
Ornithodoros kelleyi Cooley & Kohls, 1941[1]

Ornithodoros kelleyi is an argasid tick parasite of bats found widely throughout North America in caves and other natural and man-made features that harbor bats.^[2] The species has not been shown to be a major vector of pathogens.^[3]

References

1. ^ Robert Allen Cooley & Glen Milton Kohls (1941). "Three new species of Ornithodoros". Public Health Report 56: 587–594. 
2. ^ Robert Allen Cooley & Glen Milton Kohls (1944). The Argasidae of North America, Central America and Cuba. American Midland Naturalist Monographs. 1. University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 113–117. http://www.archive.org/details/argasidaeofnorth01cool. 
3. ^ Will K. Reeves, Daniel G. Streicker, Amanda D. Loftis, and Gregory A. Dasch (2006). "Serologic survey of Eptesicus fuscus from Georgia, U.S.A. for Rickettsia and Borrelia and laboratory transmission of a Rickettsia by bat ticks" (PDF). Journal of Vector Ecology 31 (2): 386–389. doi:10.3376/1081-1710(2006)31[386:SSOEFF]2.0.CO;2. PMID 17249357. http://www.sove.org/Journal%20PDF/December%202006/21%20Reeves%20et%20al%2006-46.pdf.