New records of soft ticks (Acari: Argasidae) from caves in Brazil, with a morphological study of Ornithodoros fonsecai and an analysis of the taxonomic status of Antricola inexpectata

New records of soft ticks (Acari: Argasidae) from caves in Brazil, with a morphological study of Ornithodoros fonsecai and an analysis of the taxonomic status of Antricola inexpectata

In this study, we report soft ticks from bat-inhabiting caves in different areas of Brazil. From 2010 to 2019, we collected 807 tick specimens from nine caves located in four Brazilian states among two biomes. Ticks were morphologically identified as Antricola guglielmonei (282 specimens), Ornithodo...

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Main Authors: Glauber M.B. de Oliveira, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal, Santiago Nava, Maurício C. Horta, Leopoldo Bernardi, José Manuel Venzal, Marcelo B. Labruna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-05-01
Series:Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
Subjects:
Argasids
Ornithodoros cavernicolous
Antricola guglielmonei
Morphometry
Principal component analysis
Caatinga
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X24000244

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