Abstract
A distinctive tick from the Citadel and nearby areas in Cairo, Egypt, is an undescribed member of an Asiatic group characterized by: small size; piriform shape; absence of eyes, cheeks, and distinct hood; small, inconspicuous discs or no apparent discs; absence of dorsocentral tarsal humps but with small subapical hump on tarsus I; and mammillated integument. The new Egyptian species is morphologically close to 0. batuensis Hirst 1929 and to a very closely related, yet unnamed Philippine species. These three species have many characters in common with 0. piriformis Warburton 1918, but lack the large, very distinct integumental discs of 0. piriformis. Bats are known or believed to be the hosts of all these species.1
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