College of Veterinary Medicine, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum North, Sudan.
Veterinary Research Institute, Soba, Khartoum, Sudan.
Exp Appl Acarol. 2020 Sep;82(1):161-169. doi: 10.1007/s10493-020-00534-x. Epub 2020 Aug 18.
Morphological abnormalities in ticks have rarely been reported in nature. The existing knowledge about anomalies in ticks collected in Africa is very sparse. In this paper, we describe abnormalities in Amblyomma, Hyalomma, and Rhipicephalus ticks collected from cattle, sheep, goats, camels, and horses in Kassala and North Kordofan states, Sudan, between January and August 2017. A number of 15 adult ticks displayed one or several local anomalies, such as ectromely, abnormalities of the ventral plates, and body deformities, besides newly described multiple cuticula scars. This study presents the first report of local anomalies in ticks belonging to three genera in Sudan and highlights the need to investigate the association between such morphological abnormalities and tick biology.
在自然界中，蜱虫的形态异常很少被报道。关于在非洲采集的蜱虫异常的现有知识非常稀少。本文描述了 2017 年 1 月至 8 月间在苏丹卡萨拉州和北科尔多凡州从牛、绵羊、山羊、骆驼和马身上采集的钝缘蜱属、血蜱属和璃眼蜱属蜱虫的异常情况。15 只成年蜱虫表现出一种或多种局部异常，如外生、腹侧板异常和身体畸形，此外还出现了新描述的多处表皮疤痕。本研究首次报道了苏丹三种属蜱虫的局部异常，并强调需要研究这种形态异常与蜱生物学之间的关系。
