First record of Haemaphysalis juxtakochi Cooley, 1946 (Acari: Ixodidae) in Peru

GUGLIELMONE ALBERTO, ROMERO JORGE, VENZAL JOSÉ, NAVA SANTIAGO, MANGOLD ATILIO, VILLAVICENCIO JOSÉ

Systematic And Applied Acarology

Año: 2005 vol. 10 p. 33 - 35

1362-1971

Twenty-four adult ticks were collected from South American alpacas, Lama pacos (Linnaeus, 1758), at AnexoTambo Cañahuas (16º01’S, 71º26’W), distrito de Yanahuara, departamento Arequipa, Peru, altitude 4,300 m.Three male and 20 female ticks were identified as Amblyomma parvitarsum Neumann, 1901, a common parasiteof camelids belonging to the genera Lama G. Cuvier, 1800, and Vicugna Lesson, 1842, in the Andean region ofArgentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. The remaining tick was a female of Haemaphysalis juxtakochi Cooley,1946. This is the first Peruvian record of H. juxtakochi, a species known from the Neotropical and southernNearctic Zoogeographic Regions. Lama pacos is also a new host for this tick species.