Checklist of New Zealand ticks (Acari: Ixodidae, Argasidae) Author Heath, Allen C. G. AgResearch, National Centre for Biosecurity and Infectious Disease, Wallaceville, P. O. Box 40063, Upper Hutt, New Zealand, 5140 allen.heath@agresearch.co.nz Author Palma, Ricardo L. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand ricardop@tepapa.govt.nz Author Cane, Rachel P. Mosquito Consulting Services (NZ), P. O. Box 69 - 198, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand rachel.cane@mcspty.com Author Hardwick, Scott Biosecurity Group, AgResearch, Private Bag 4749, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand scott.hardwick@agresearch.co.nz text Zootaxa 2011 2011-08-15 2995 55 63 journal article 47035 10.5281/zenodo.203775 243330e0-1613-42ec-a6dd-60c80c56a438 1175-5326 203775 Carios capensis ( Neumann, 1901 ) Host(s) Seabirds: Pterodroma neglecta , Pterodroma nigripennis , Puffinus assimilis , Phaethon rubricauda , Morus serrator , Stictocarbo punctatus punctatus , Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus , Anous stolidus pileatus , Onychoprion fuscatus serratus . Land bird: Porzana tabuensis tabuensis . Distribution World: Widespread on islands of the South Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and occasionally on the mainland between 40ºN and 45ºS. Extralimital records in the Northern Hemisphere have been considered doubtful. New Zealand : Somes Island (Wellington Harbour), Cape Kidnappers, Raglan, West Coast, Banks Peninsula. References: Neumann (1901) ; Dumbleton (1958 , 1961 ); Amerson (1968) ; Ramsay (1968) ; Theiler (1971) ; Heath (1977 , 2006 a , 2010a); Bishop & Heath (1998) ; Gordon (2010) .