Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) as experimental hosts for Amblyomma dubitatum Neumann (Acari: Ixodidae)

Abstract

Communication [Comunicação] Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) as experimental hosts forAmblyomma dubitatum Neumann (Acari: Ixodidae)[Coelhos (Oryctolagus cuniculus) como hospedeiros experimentais de Amblyomma dubitatum Neumann (Acari: Ixodidae)]

The life cycle of Amblyomma auricularium (Acari: Ixodidae) using rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) as experimental host

“…In fact, biological studies have been published for only 14% of approximately 60 known Amblyomma species of the Neotropical region (Onofrio et al 2006). Among the 33 Amblyomma species known to occur in Brazil, life cycle under laboratory conditions has been reported only for Amblyomma aureolatum (Rodrigues et al 2002;Pinter et al 2004), Amblyomma brasiliense (Sanches et al 2008), Amblyomma cajennense (Aragão 1936; Guglielmone et al 1992;Lopes et al 1998;Prata et al 1998;Pinter et al 2002), Amblyomma dissimile (Schumaker and Barros-Battesti 1994;Freitas et al 2004), Amblyomma dubitatum (as Amblyomma cooperi) (Labruna et al 2004;Faccini et al 2006), Amblyomma parvum (Guglielmone et al 1991), Amblyomma rotundatum (Aragão 1918;Oba and Schumaker 1984), Amblyomma tigrinum Aguirre et al 2005;Cardoso et al 2008), and Amblyomma triste (Labruna et al 2003).…”