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A NEW SPECIES OF TICK FOUND ON SHREWS*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2012
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FEMALE. Dimensions of unengorged holotype–1.2 mm. (to tip of scapula) x .78 mm. Colour–pale, dirty white, engorged specimens pale and yellowish.
Capitulum. Length 340 microns (tip of hypostome io dorsal ridge); width (at cornua) 300 microns. Surface of basis capituli smooth and impunctate. Cornua heavily chitinized but not prominent.
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* Contribution No. 2152, Division of Entomology, Science Service, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada.
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