Amblyomma yucumense Krawczak, Martins & Labruna, 2015 (Acari: Ixodidae) in Argentina

DANIELA LAMATTINA; VENZAL, JOSÉ M.; EVELINA L. TARRAGONA; ATILIO J. MANGOLD; SANTIAGO NAVA

Systematic & Applied Acarology

BioOne

Año: 2018 vol. 23 p. 799 - 802

2056-6069

The Argentinian fauna of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) is currently composed of at least 39 species,being the genus Amblyomma the most numerous with 24 species (Nava et al. 2017). Amblyommayucumense Krawczak, Martins & Labruna, 2015 was recently described from specimens collectedin the Turvo State Park, state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil (Krawczak et al. 2015). To datethis is the only place where this tick species has been found. But in this work we report for the firsttime the presence of A. yucumense in Argentina by means of morphological diagnoses and theanalysis of partial sequences of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene.