Asiatic-Pacific Ticks Species of Medical and Veterinary Importance

Asiatic-Pacific Ticks: Species of Medical and Veterinary Importance provides the most comprehensive and updated research on the taxonomy, biology, and bionomics of tick species native to the Palearctic and Oriental zoogeographic regions. It synthesizes all current research on each species using global perspectives, as these species begin to spread beyond their native habitats.

Written and edited by international experts on the ticks of eastern Asia, this book covers the 12 primary species, including the Asian longhorned tick and those under the Hyalomma genus. Each chapter begins by discussing the species? classification history, followed by identification descriptions for all active life stages, and a detailed discussion of biology and bionomics. The chapters end with a discussion of pathogenic agents associated with each species and their context for human and animal ecology.

Asiatic-Pacific Ticks: Species of Medical and Veterinary Importance is a vital resource for entomologists, both in human-medical and veterinary focuses. Public health personnel and parasitologists tracking diseases in tick species will also find this useful.

1. Argas persicus
2. Ornithodoros lahorensis
3. Amblyomma testudinarium
4. Dermacentor nuttalli
5. Dermacentor silvarum
6. Haemaphysalis longicornis
7. Hyalomma anatolicum
8. Hyalomma asiaticum
9. Hyalomma rufipes
10. Ixodes persulcatus
11. Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus
12. Rhipicephalus sanguineus

Dr. Ze Chen PhD is currently an Associate Professor at Hebei Normal University, where she previously received her PhD in Ecology. From 2015 to 2019, she was an Associate Professor in the Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Her research focuses on tick taxonomy, biology, phylogenetics, and physiology with respect to disease transmission. She is the author of Systematics and Taxonomy of Ixodida from Science Press and has co-authored numerous other publications on tick species.
Dr. Richard G. Robbins PhD is an Emeritus Research Associate at the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit,
Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. He is also a Curatorial Affiliate in the Division of Entomology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Dr. Robbins received his PhD from George Washington University, focusing on the systematics and ecology of ticks. He is currently on the editorial board for Systematic and Applied Acarology and serves as an external reviewer for numerous journals, including Elsevier’s Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases.