| does aponomma varanensis (acari: ixodida: ixodidae) occur on the taiwanese mainland? | on 15 july 1976, teams from the u.s. naval medical research unit no. 2, taipei, taiwan, made 3 collections of ticks from beneath the dorsal scales of the taiwan stink snake, elaphe carinata, at makung in the penghu islands, which lie astride the tropic of cancer in the taiwan strait between southern mainland china and taiwan proper. these ticks were later determined to be aponomma varanensis (supino, 1897), but this discovery was never published, and no member of the genus aponomma has heretofor ... | 1996 | 8691388 |
| first report of amblyomma helvolum (acari: ixodidae) from the taiwan stink snake, elaphe carinata (reptilia: colubridae), collected in southern taiwan. | a taiwan stink snake (elaphe carinata) was captured in shrubbery at a fruit farm in southern taiwan, and 3 female ticks (2 flat, one fully engorged) observed on this snake were collected and identified as amblyomma helvolum, the first record of this host association in mainland taiwan. the key morphological characters of female a. helvolum were photographed using a stereomicroscope. this first report of a. helvolum feeding on a reptilian host in taiwan includes the first color illustrations of a ... | 2013 | 23352173 |