Amblyomma imitator (lat.) - a species of ticks of the genus Amblyomma from the family Ixodidae . North America : USA , Mexico , Guatemala , Honduras . Adult developmental stages are mainly parasitic in livestock. Among the owners, deer, bakers , people , turkeys and others are also noted. Nymphs were collected on goats and humans [1] [2] [3] . Rickettsia carriers Rickettsia rickettsii [4] . The species was first described in 1958 by the American acarologist Glen Köls ( Kohls Glen M. , 1958) [5] .
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Notes
- ↑ Kolonin GV Fauna of Ixodid ticks of the World (Acari, Ixodidae): Amblyomma. Archived on September 22, 2010. (English) - M. , 2009. (Retrieved December 22, 2013) .
- ↑ Horak Ivan G., Camicas Jean-Louis, Keirans James E. The Ixodidae, Amblyommidae and Nuttalliellidae (Acari: Ixodida): a world list of valid tick names (Eng.) // Experimental and Applied Acarology: Journal. - Springer, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. - Vol. 28. - P. 27-54. - ISSN 0168-8162 .
- ↑ Guglielmone Alberto A. et al. The Argasidae, Ixodidae and Nuttalliellidae (Acari: Ixodida) of the world: a list of valid species names (English) // Zootaxa : Journal. - Auckland , New Zealand : Magnolia Press. - Vol. 2528. - P. 1–28. - ISSN 1175-5326 .
- ↑ Karla A. Oliveira, Adriano Pinter, Aaron Medina-Sanchez, Venkata D. Boppana, Stephen K. Wikel, Tais B. Saito, Thomas Shelite, Lucas Blanton, Vsevolod Popov, Pete D. Teel, David H. Walker, Marcio AM Galvao, Claudio Mafra, Donald H. Bouyer. 2010. Amblyomma imitator Ticks as Vectors of Rickettsia rickettsii, Mexico. - Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 August; 16 (8): 1282–1284. (English) (Retrieved January 18, 2014)
- ↑ Kohls Glen M. 1958. Amblyomma imitator, a new species of tick from Texas and Mexico, and remarks on the synonymy of A. cajennense (Fabricius) (Acarina-Ixodidae). - The Journal of Parasitology. 1958; 44 (4): 430-433.
Literature
- Kolonin GV Worldwide distribution of ixodid ticks. Childbirth Hyalomma, Aponomma, Amblyomma (Acari: Ixodidae). - Moscow: Nauka, 1983 .-- 120 s.
- Voltzit, OV A review of Neotropical Amblyomma species (Acari: Ixodidae) (English) // Acarina . - Moscow: KMK Scientific Press, Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, 2007. - Vol. 15 , no. 1 . - P. 3–134 . - ISSN 0132-8077 . Archived {a. (Retrieved January 13, 2013)
Links
- Amblyomma imitator Information on Discover Life. (English) (Retrieved December 17, 2013)