Redescription of the female, description of the male, and several new records of Amblyomma parkeri (Acari: Ixodidae), a South American tick species

Labruna, Marcelo Bahia; Onofrio, Valéria Castilho; Béati, Lorenza; Arzua, Márcia; Bertola, Patrícia Beloto; Ribeiro, Alberto F.; Barros‐Battesti, Darci Moraes

doi:10.1007/s10493-009-9257-z

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“…Although most of the tick-host reports cited in this study have been reported in earlier studies conducted in Brazil and in Argentina (FONSECA, 1933;ARAGÃO, 1936;LABRUNA et al, 2005LABRUNA et al, , 2007LABRUNA et al, , 2009MARTINS, J., et al, 2006;MARTINS, T., et al, 2009MARTINS, T., et al, , 2013MARTINS, T., et al, , 2015 (MARQUES et al, 2002). The present record of nymphs of A. varium on B. variegatus in the FPZSP is consistent with an earlier study which found that nymphs of this tick species use sloths of the genus Bradypus as hosts.…”

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Ticks infesting captive and free-roaming wild animal species at the São Paulo Zoo, São Paulo, Brazil

Gonzalez¹,

Labruna

Chagas³

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Rev. Bras. Parasitol. Vet.

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Ticks are ectoparasites of worldwide distribution that affect vertebrates and can transmit pathogens to animals and humans. The Zoological Park Foundation of São Paulo (FPZSP) is located in a Conservation Unit in one of the most important remaining fragments of the Atlantic Rainforest biome in the suburbs of São Paulo, Brazil. The FPZSP houses more than 3,000 wild animals on exhibit, in breeding programs and in environmental education programs, and also attracts migratory birds and free-roaming wildlife. This study focused on identifying the diversity of tick species that infest captive and free-roaming animals at the FPZSP. The collection of ticks kept at the FPZSP contains 523 specimens that were collected from different host species between 1990 and 2017. Ten tick species were found. In addition, Amblyomma aureolatum (Pallas) was found on stray cats living in the Atlantic forest fragment in the FPZSP. This study reveals a low occurrence of parasitism in captive animals and a high diversity of tick species collected from hosts in this Atlantic forest fragment, contributing information about host-parasite relationships and potential vectors of zoonotic diseases, since the vectors of Brazilian spotted fever, A. aureolatum and Amblyomma sculptum Berlese, were found in some hosts.

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Ticks infesting captive and free-roaming wild animal species at the São Paulo Zoo, São Paulo, Brazil

Gonzalez¹,

Labruna

Chagas³

et al. 2017

Rev. Bras. Parasitol. Vet.

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“…Ticks species Amblyomma geayi and Amblyomma varium are usually recorded parasitizing sloths (MARQUES et al, 2002;LABRUNA et al, 2009;SOUZA et al, 2016). In the present study, adults of A. geayi and adults and nymphs of A. varium were identified on B. tridactylus, corroborating the studies of SERRA-FREIRE et al (1993) andMARQUES et al (2002), who also identified adults of these same species of ticks in this same host in the North region of Brazil.…”

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Tick fauna of wild animals received and attended at the Santarém Zoological Park, western Pará State, Brazil

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Ticks are known worldwide for parasitizing a number of wild hosts. However, few studies have been conducted on ticks in zoos in Brazil. The objective of the present study was to collect, identify, and report the parasitic tick fauna found on wild Amazon animals received and attended at the Santarém Zoological Park from September 2004 to September 2013. In all, 56 animals, including 26 mammals and 30 reptiles, were sampled, from which 1172 ticks were collected and identified, comprising 862 adults, 284 nymphs, and 26 larvae. Nymphs of Amblyomma geayi on three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus), adults of Amblyomma longirostre on black dwarf porcupine (Coendou nycthemera), and nymphs of Amblyomma naponense on southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) were identified for the first time in the country in the present study. Although, the North region is the largest among the five Brazilian regions, this is the first study conducted with ticks and animals attended in a zoo in the Brazilian Amazon.

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“…and Sphigurus spp. ; Guglielmone et al 2003;Labruna et al 2009), there has been only two bird records for immature stages of this tick, which refer to larvae on the Passeriformes T. caerulescens (Vieillot, 1816) (Thamnophilidae) and Trichothraupis melanops (Vieillot, 1818) (Emberezidae) in the state of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil (Ogrzewalska et al 2008). Here, we add three other species being parasitized for the first time by this tick: Thalurania glaucopis (Gmelin, 1788) (Apodiformes; Trochilidae), C. melanops (Vieillot, 1818) (Passeriformes; Conopophagidae), and Manacus manacus (Linnaeus, 1766) (Passeriformes; Pipridae).…”

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“…This tick is widely distributed in the Neotropical region . Adults of A. longirostre feed primarily on rodent porcupines of the genera Coendou, Chaetomys, and Sphiggurus, whereas subadult stages feed primarily on arboreal passerine birds (Aragão 1936;Labruna et al 2007aLabruna et al , 2009Nava et al 2010;Ogrzewalska et al 2010;Tolesano-Pascoli et al 2010). In the present study, we found three additional species being parasitized for the first time by this tick: Conopophaga melanops Table 1).…”

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Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) infesting wild birds in the Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil, with notes on rickettsial infection in ticks

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A total of 232 individuals representing 46 species of birds were mist-netted and screened for ticks in a region of the Atlantic Forest, State of Bahia, Brazil. Thirty-eight (16.4%) of these birds representing 17 species were found infested by immature stages of Amblyomma ticks, namely, Amblyomma longirostre (Koch, 1844) (15 larvae and seven nymphs), Amblyomma nodosum (Neumann, 1899) (nine nymphs), Amblyomma calcaratum (Neumann, 1899) (five nymphs), Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) (seven larvae), and Amblyomma parkeri (Fonseca and Aragão, 1952) (four larvae). Overall, 21 larvae and five nymphs collected from birds could not be identified to species and were morphologically identified as Amblyomma spp. Among 13 A. longirostre larvae and two A. parkeri larvae, two individuals of A. longirostre (15.4%) were found infected by Rickettsia amblyommii. This study provides some bird species found infested by A. longirostre, A. parkeri, A. calcaratum, A. nodosum, or A. cajennense for the first time and expands the distribution of R. amblyommii-infected A. longirostre ticks.

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Redescription of the female, description of the male, and several new records of Amblyomma parkeri (Acari: Ixodidae), a South American tick species

Cited by 44 publications

References 20 publications

Ticks infesting captive and free-roaming wild animal species at the São Paulo Zoo, São Paulo, Brazil

Ticks infesting captive and free-roaming wild animal species at the São Paulo Zoo, São Paulo, Brazil

Tick fauna of wild animals received and attended at the Santarém Zoological Park, western Pará State, Brazil

Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) infesting wild birds in the Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil, with notes on rickettsial infection in ticks

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