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The species composition of the subgenus Exopalpiger Schulze, 1935 (genus Ixodes Latreille, 1795) and species ranges are considered. Altitude and biotopic preferences and host-parasite relations of species are analyzed. A hypothesis explaining the palaeogenesis of the disjunctive distribution (Europe; South Africa; north and east of South America; New Guinea, southern Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania) of the subgenus Exopalpiger is proposed.
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Original Russian Text © N.A. Filippova, 2010, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2010, Vol. 89, No. 2, pp. 479–484.
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Filippova, N.A. Uncommon zoogeographical connections in the subgenus Exopalpiger Schultze of the genus Ixodes Latreille (Acari, Ixodidae). Entmol. Rev. 90, 793–797 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873810060151
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