External Morphological Anomalies in Ixodid Ticks from Thrace, Turkey

Overview

Journal Exp Appl Acarol

Specialties Biology
Parasitology

Date 2015 Aug 13

PMID 26264155

Citations 9

Authors

Sirri Kar

Gurkan Akyildiz

Nadim Yilmazer

Taher Shaibi

Aysen Gargili

Zati Vatansever

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Abstract

Of 18,667 ticks examined, 33 specimens from species identified as Haemaphysalis parva, Hyalomma marginatum, Hy. scupense, Rhipicephalus bursa and Rh. turanicus were found to have external morphological anomalies. Anomalous Ha. parva, Hy. scupence and Rh. turanicus were reported in this study for the first time. General anomalies manifested as asymmetry and deformations of the idiosoma, whereas local anomalies occurred in legs, exoskeleton, spiracular, adanal, subanal and accessory plates, mouthparts and capitulum. With this study describing a gynandromorphic Hy. marginatum, the number of gynandromorphic tick cases has been raised to two in Turkey.

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