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Argas macrostigmatus Filippova, 1961 (Fig. 7)

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Argas macrostigmatus is a parasite of the crested cormorant Phalacrocorax aristotelis.

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Petney, T.N., Pfäffle, M.P., Estrada-Peña, A. (2017). Argas macrostigmatus Filippova, 1961 (Fig. 7). In: Estrada-Peña, A., Mihalca, A., Petney, T. (eds) Ticks of Europe and North Africa. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63760-0_7

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