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WHILE visiting Puffin Island, at the north-east end of the Menai Straits (North Wales) on May 16, 1954, about a dozen specimens of an argasid tick consisting of late nymphal stages and adults of both sexes were collected from under a stone in a dry part of the cliff. They possessed the movable cheeks to the camero-stome; the legs, which were micromammilate, lacked dorsal humps, and the disks on the dorsal surface of the body were large and conspicuous. They were identified as an Ornithodoros species of the talaje group. A critical examination of this group by comparison with specimens from the British Museum (Natural History) is now being made.
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HOBART, J., WHALLEY, P. Occurrence of a Species of Ornithodoros in Britain. Nature 174, 936 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174936a0
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