Alloceraea is a genus of hard ticks. Member species parasitise a wide variety of hosts, but particularly bovids, cervids and birds. The genus is found in the Oriental and Nearctic zoogeographic regions, in tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf and conifer forests. Formerly a subgenus of Haemaphysalis, the taxon was elevated to generic rank in 2024.
Species Alloceraea aponommoides (Warburton, 1913) Alloceraea colasbelcouri (Santos Dias, 1958) Alloceraea inermis (Birula, 1895) Alloceraea kitaokai (Hoogstraal, 1969) Alloceraea kolonini (Du, Sun, Xu and Shao, 2018) Alloceraea primitiva (Teng, 1982)
†Alloceraea cretacea (Chitimia-Dobler, Pfeffer & Dunlop, 2018) Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian ~99 million years ago.
References