The Systematics of the Subfamily Ornithodorinae (Acarina: Argasidae). IV. Eight New Species of Ornithodoros from the Western Hemisphere

Described as new, from larvae only, are: Ornithodoros setosus from bats, Pteronotus parnellii and P. psilotis in Mexico, Tadarida europs in Venezuela and T. laticaudata in Brazil; (). eptesicus from bat, Eptesicus furinalis in Venezuela; O. peruvianus from bats, Molossus obscurus, Desmodus rotundus, and Glossophaga sp. in Peru; O. pteroptvryx from bat, Pteropteryx macrotus, in Colombia; O. mimon from bats, Mimon crenulatum, in Bolivia and Eptesicus brasiliensis in Uruguay; O. marinkellei from bats, Pteronotus suapurensis, P. personata and P. parnellii, in Colombia and Panama; O. mormoops from bat, Mormoops megalophylla intermedia, from the island of Curacao in the Caribbean and O. echimys from spiny rat, Echimys semivillosus, in Venezuela. O. marinkellei and O. mormoops are placed in the subgenus Subparmatus Clifford, Kohls, & Sonenshine, 1964. Subgeneric assignment of the other new species is considered inadvisable until the adult stages have been discovered.