| infective larvae of cercopithifilaria spp. (nematoda: onchocercidae) from hard ticks (ixodidae) recovered from the japanese serow (bovidae). | hard ticks taken from the japanese serow, capricornis crispus, in yamagata prefecture, honshu, harboured infective larvae of onchocercid filariae after incubation from the 22nd to the 158th day. haemaphysalis flava and h. japonica contained one to eight filarial larvae; females, males and a nymph of the ticks were infected. the 44 infective larvae recovered were 612-1,370 μm long, and 11 of them, 930-1,340 μm long, were studied in detail. the larvae possessed the morphologic characteristics of t ... | 2013 | 23340227 |