Carios is a genus of soft ticks belonging to the family Argasidae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.
Species
Carios is one of nine genera in the Argasid subfamily Ornithodorinae. The genus currently contains 8 species.
- C. (Carios) australiensis <small>(Kohls and Hoogstraal, 1962)</small>
- C. (Carios) daviesi <small>(Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1973)</small>
- C. (Carios) dewae <small>(Kaiser and Hoogstraal, 1974)</small>
- C. (Carios) macrodermae <small>(Hoogstraal, Moorhouse, Wolf and Wassef, 1977)</small>
- C. (Carios) pusillus <small>(Kohls, 1950)</small>
- C. (Carios) quadridentatus <small>Heath, 2012</small>
- C. (Carios) sinensis <small>(Jeu and Zhu, 1982)</small>
- C. (Carios) vespertilionis <small>(Latreille, 1796)</small>
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