Are there 16 species of brown dog ticks? Phylogenies from 60 entire mitochondrial genomes and 162 cox1 sequences reveal 16 species-level clades in the Rhipicephalus (Rhipicephalus) sanguineus group
TABLE 1. Morphological characteristics for distinguishing M. ruschii of other morphological similar species of the AF, in bold the diagnostic characters of each species. CharactersM. edulisM. grandist
