Alloceraea

 ( Ixodidae ) 

Alloceraea is a genus of Ixodidae. Member species parasitise a wide variety of hosts, but particularly Bovidae, Deer and . 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.

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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.

Categories: Ixodidae, Acari Genera

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