| 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 |
| a new species of ornithodoros (acari: argasidae) from desert areas of northern chile. | ornithodoros atacamensis n. sp. is described from larvae collected on the lizard liolaemus bisignatus and from free-living adults collected in desert areas from the pan de azúcar and llanos de challe national parks, in northern chile. additionally, unengorged larvae were obtained from fertilized females, which laid eggs in the laboratory. morphological and mitochondrial 16s rdna sequence analyses were performed in order to compare this new soft tick species with other congeneric neotropical repr ... | 2016 | 27132517 |
| ornithodoros guaporensis (acari, ixodida: argasidae), a new tick species from the guapore river basin in the bolivian amazon. | the soft tick ornithodoros guaporensis n. sp. (acari: ixodida: argasidae) is described from larvae and adults. morphological analysis and 16s rdna sequences are provided. adults were collected from a rocky fissure inhabited by bats located in the amazonian forest in north-eastern bolivia (beni department) close to the guapord river. larvae were obtained from eggs laid by females collected in the field, and which were fed on rabbits in the laboratory. larvae of o. guaporensis are morphologically ... | 2013 | 26217870 |