Vargas V M
Rev Biol Trop. 1984 Jun;32(1):103-7.
Several persons from two localities in Costa Rica (San Rafael de Coronado, 1510 m and Dulce Nombre de Tres Ríos, 1445 m) were bitten by ticks, subsequently identified as Ornitohodoros (A.) Kelleyi (Argasidae), commonly associated with bats. In the attics of their homes, live adults, larvae, nymphs and skins were found in the bat guano. Since there are no records of adult argasids in this country, a laboratory colony was established to observe the biology of these ticks and their association with bats. In this particular case, the bats were Molossidae and Vespertilionidae, both insectivorous. Adults and last nymphal ticks easily fed on suckling white mice in the dark; feeding lasts from 20 to 40 minutes, when abundant coxal fluid is produced; oviposition occurs from 14 to 27 days later. Comparison of the most common structures of both whole larvae and larval skins revealed no significant differences, taxonomically important, since according to the habits of the Argasidae, it is easier to find larval molts than live specimens.
来自哥斯达黎加两个地区（圣拉斐尔·德·科罗纳多，海拔1510米；甜蜜三河镇，海拔1445米）的几个人被蜱虫叮咬，这些蜱虫后来被鉴定为与蝙蝠相关的凯氏钝缘蜱（软蜱科）。在他们房屋的阁楼里，在蝙蝠粪便中发现了成年蜱虫、幼虫、若虫和蜱蜕。由于该国没有成年软蜱的记录，因此建立了一个实验室种群来观察这些蜱虫的生物学特性及其与蝙蝠的关系。在这个特殊案例中，蝙蝠为食虫性的犬吻蝠科和蝙蝠科。成年蜱虫和末龄若蜱在黑暗中很容易吸食乳鼠；进食持续20至40分钟，此时会产生大量的基节液；产卵在14至27天后进行。对整个幼虫和幼虫皮最常见结构的比较显示，在分类学上没有显著差异，这很重要，因为根据软蜱科的习性，找到幼虫蜕皮比找到活标本更容易。
