Synopses & Reviews
Highly illustrated and definitive reference work for the identification and biology of ticks.
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"This comprehensive guide proves to be an excellent reference for anyone interested in the brown tick...this is a well-organized and carefully prepared and edited reference book. It successfully provides a great deal of information in a most scientific, yet reader-friendly format." Vet Human Toxicology
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"This authoritative and beautiful book is the best beginning we could wish for acarology's third century. No one who visits its pages will fail to find instruction or inspiration." Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington
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"This handsome, rather massive book, with large clear type in double columns and large format is well bound, nearly error-free, and reasonably priced for its size and content. It is recommended as an essential reference tool for workers worldwide who may have any of a variety of interest in Rhipicephalus ticks--all the more so in this era that is exposed to problems of globalization more than ever before." Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Canada
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"The authors are well qualified to produce such a monograph...The research is exhaustive; all of the major collections of Africa, Europe, and North America lent specimens for study. The wording is precise, and the book is carefully edited. The illustrations and maps are sharp and detailed. It is highly recommended for libraries whose patrons have an interest in ticks...Medical libraries and academic libraries with emphases on agriculture, tropical medicine, veterinary science, or arthropod studies will absolutely need this book. It is a book that will surely get under your skin." E-Streams
Synopsis
Brown ticks are important vectors of animal and human diseases, but are very difficult to identify. This highly illustrated reference volume provides keys for all known stages of each species. With descriptions of hosts, distributions, and disease transmission, it is the definitive reference work on this genus.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Relationships of the ticks (Ixodida) and definition of the genus Rhipicephalus; Format for accounts of different species; Glossary; Rhipicephalus species names of the world; Species occurring in the Afrotropical region; Species occurring outside the Afrotropical region; Species groups based on the immature stages; The transmission of tick-borne diseases by Rhipicephalus species; Index.