INVESTIGADORES
AMICO Guillermo Cesar
artículos
Título:
Description of the nymph and larva and redescription of the female of Ixodes neuquenensis Ringuelet, 1947 (Acari: Ixodidae), a parasite of the endangered Neotropical marsupial Dromiciops gliroides Thomas (Microbiotheria: Microbiotheriidae)
Autor/es:
GUGLIELMONE, AA; VENZAL, JM; AMICO, GC; MANGOLD, AJ; KEIRANS, JE
Revista:
SYSTEMATIC PARASITOLOGY
Referencias:
Año: 2004 vol. 57 p. 211 - 219
ISSN:
0165-5752
Resumen:
The female of Ixodes
neuquenensis Ringuelet, 1947 (Acari: Ixodidae) is redescribed and the nymph
and larva are described from specimens collected from the endangeredmarsupial Dromiciops gliroides Thomas
(Microbiotheria: Microbiotheriidae) in Argentina. At first sight the female of I. neuquenensis resembles a member of
the subgenus Ixodes Latreille, 1795.
However, the female of I. neuquenensis
is peculiar in having the combination of two spurs on coxae IIIV and a pair of
chitinous plaques internal to coxa I. Both the nymph and larva have an anterior
and posterior process on palpal article I, characteristics of the subgenus Ixodiopsis Filippova, 1957 and some representatives
of the subgenus Pholeoixodes Schulze,
1942. Analysis of 16S mitochondrial rDNA sequences showed no strong
relationship with any known Ixodes subgenus.