FIELDIANA • ZOOLOGY Published by CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM Volume 39 April 22, 1959 No. 28 TICKS (IXODOIDEA) OF ARABIA With Special Reference to the Yemen ^ Harry Hoogstraal AND Makram N. Kaiser Department of Medical Zoology United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 INTRODUCTION Late in 1950, His Majesty Imam Ahmed Bin Yahya Hamid Al-Din, King of the Yemen, invited the Director of the United States Naval Medical Research Unit, Cairo, to send a group of experts to make a brief medical survey of the Yemen for His Majesty's guidance in future administration of disease control. The Yemen collections reported herein, totaling 9178 specimens, were obtained by the senior author during this study, in January and February of 1951. For an excellent account of the Yemen, with emphasis on its bio-logical features, the reader is referred to Scott (1942). A popular account of this work has already been presented (Hoog-straal, 1952) as well as a geomedical survey (Mount, 1953; quoted by Girolami, 1952). Specialized studies resulting from this mission have since been published as follows: intestinal protozoa and helminth parasites (Kuntz, Malakatis, Lawless, and Strome, 1953), serological and bacteriological survey (Mount and Baranski, 1953), epidemiology of schistosomiasis (Kuntz, 1952), amphibians and rep-tiles (Schmidt, 1953), mammals and ectoparasites (Sanborn and Hoogstraal, 1953), Phlebotomus (Theodor, 1953), Nycteribiidae (The-odor and Moscona, 1954), mosquitoes (Knight, 1953a,b; Mattingly and Knight, 1956), mites (Radford, 1954), a human intestinal fluke ' The opinions and assertions contained herein are the private ones of the authors and are not to be construed as official or as reflecting the views of the Navy Department or the naval service at large. Research Report NM 005 050.39.58. n I *-} V lit l»lr Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 59-10695 No. 871 297 ^...^ 2 o ^g^g 1959 NATURAL MMIVF^^JTY T;',-\\\ \l HISTORY SURVEY ^'^J---•' • LIBRARY
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