| a new argasid tick species (acari: argasidae) associated with the rock cavy, kerodon rupestris wied-neuwied (rodentia: caviidae), in a semiarid region of brazil. | the rock cavy kerodon rupestris (wied-neuwied, 1820) is a rodent species endemic to northeastern brazil. earlier studies have associated the argasid tick ornithodoros talaje (guérin-méneville, 1849) with rocky cavy; however, a recent study proposed that o. talaje is not established in brazil, where previous reports of this species were possibly misidentifications of closely related species, yet to be properly determined. here, we describe a new species of ornithodoros koch, 1844 associated with ... | 2016 | 27655282 |
| ornithodoros quilinensis sp. nov. (acari, argasidae), a new tick species from the chacoan region in argentina. | ornithodoros quilinensis sp. nov. (acari: argasidae) is described from larvae collected on the small rodents graomys centralis (cricetidae: sigmodontinae) in argentina. the diagnostic characters for this new species are a combination of small size (520-540 μm), a dorsal plate oval in shape with a length of approximately 200 μm, 14 pairs of dorsal setae, hypostome short and narrower at the base (length from ph(1) to apex 133 μm (120-141)) with dental formula 2/2 and apex blunt, and the capsule of ... | 2012 | 22875683 |