Amblyomma Aureolatum (Acari: Ixodidae) Parasitizing Didelphis Albiventris (Marsupialia: Didelphidae) in the State of Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil

Abstract

The occurrence of Amblyomma aureolatum is reported for the first time in the State of Rio Grande do Sul and also in Brazil, parasiting the opossum Didelphis albiventris.

Hemoparasites in Didelphis aurita from Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

“…In Brazil, several tick species, such as Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Reck et al, 2018), Amblyomma incisum (Reck et al, 2018), Amblyomma sp. (F. S. Reis et al, 2008;Maia et al, 2018;Mendonça et al, 2020), Amblyomma fuscum (Dantas-Torres et al, 2012), Amblyomma aureolatum (Müller et al, 2005;Reck et al, 2018), A. sculptum (Wolf et al, 2016;Ueno et al, 2020), Amblyomma scalpturatum (Mendonça et al, 2020), Amblyomma cajennense strictu sensu (Mendonça et al, 2020), Amblyomma humerale (Mendonça et al, 2020), Amblyomma coelebs (Mendonça et al, 2020), Amblyomma ovale (Reck et al, 2018), Ixodes amarali (Guitton et al, 1986), Ixodes loricatus (Guitton et al, 1986;Dantas-Torres et al, 2012), Amblyomma dubitatum (Ueno et al, 2020;Gonçalves et al, 2021), Amblyomma auricularium (Maia et al, 2018), Amblyommma parvum (Maia et al, 2018), Ornithodoros guaporensis (Wolf et al, 2016), and Haemaphysalis juxtakochi (Reck et al, 2018), have already been described in marsupials, in addition to the fleas of the species Ctenocephalides canis, C. felis felis (Milagres et al, 2010), Rhopalopsyllus spp. (Mendonça et al, 2020), and Xenopsylla cheopis (Milagres et al, 2010).…”