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The following characteristics are described from a laboratory colony of the Florida subspecies of Ornithodoros turicata reared on suckling mice: egg incubation period and percent hatch; prefeeding, feeding, and premolting periods for larvae and 1st-6th nymphal instars; male and female feeding and mating periods; egg number; and ovipositional period and pattern. Behavioral and other observational data are reported, including some comparisons with several other Ornithodoros spp. and with published accounts of the life history of O. turicata from the western U.S. Based on distributional, behavioral, and biological information, the name americanus is resurrected for the Florida subspecies of O. turicata.
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