Muñoz-Leal S, Barbier E, Soares F A M, Bernard E, Labruna M B, Dantas-Torres F
Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Departamento de Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Exp Appl Acarol. 2018 Dec;76(4):537-549. doi: 10.1007/s10493-018-0330-3. Epub 2018 Nov 24.
In Brazil, at least 14 species of soft ticks (Argasidae) are associated with bats. While Ornithodoros hasei seems to be abundant among foliage-roosting bats, other groups of ticks are found exclusively inside caves. In this paper, noteworthy records of soft ticks infesting bats are documented in new localities from Bahia, Pernambuco, Piauí, and Rondônia states. Out of 201 bats examined, 25 were infested by 152 ticks belonging to seven taxa: Ornithodoros cavernicolous, O. hasei, Ornithodoros marinkellei, Ornithodoros cf. fonsecai, Ornithodoros cf. clarki, Antricola sp., and Nothoaspis amazoniensis. These findings provide new insights into the geographical distribution and host association of soft ticks occurring in the Neotropical region. Remarkably, morphological and biological observations about O. hasei are inferred based on the examination of on-host-collected first stage nymphs.
在巴西，至少有14种软蜱（argasidae科）与蝙蝠有关。虽然哈氏钝缘蜱在栖息于树叶间的蝙蝠中似乎很常见，但其他蜱类仅在洞穴中被发现。本文记录了巴伊亚州、伯南布哥州、皮奥伊州和朗多尼亚州新地点的蝙蝠感染软蜱的显著记录。在检查的201只蝙蝠中，25只被152只蜱感染，这些蜱属于七个分类单元：洞穴钝缘蜱、哈氏钝缘蜱、马林凯莱钝缘蜱、疑似丰塞卡钝缘蜱、疑似克拉克钝缘蜱、蚁蜱属物种和亚马逊诺托蜱。这些发现为新热带地区软蜱的地理分布和宿主关联提供了新的见解。值得注意的是，基于对在宿主身上采集的第一期若虫的检查，推断出了关于哈氏钝缘蜱的形态学和生物学观察结果。
