Systematic and Applied Acarology 2007

Systematic & Applied Acarology
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Systematic & Applied Acarology (2007) 12, 135-139
Additional observations on the morphology and hosts of Ixodes stilesi Neumann, 1911 (Acari: Ixodidae)

ALBERTO A. GUGLIELMONE¹, SANTIAGO NAVA¹, DANIEL GONZÁLEZ-ACUÑA², ATILIO J. MANGOLD¹ & RICHARD G. ROBBINS³
^{1Instituto Nacional de
Tecnología Agropecuaria, CC 22, CP 2300 Rafaela, Santa Fe, Argentina.

E-mail: aguglielmone@rafaela.inta.gov.ar
^{2Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad de
Concepción, Casilla 537, Chillán, Chile
^{3DPMIAC/AFPMB, Walter Reed Army Medical Center,
Washington, DC 20307-5001, USA}}
Abstract

Three females and a nymph of Ixodes stilesi were
collected by dragging ground vegetation in a southern beech (Nothofagus)
forest at San Martin (39º 38’S, 73º 75’W), Valdivia Province, Los
Ríos Region (Region XIV), Chile, 20 April 2005 and 1 April 2006; a second
nymph was removed from the long-tailed pygmy rice rat or colilargo, Oligoryzomys
longicaudatus (Bennett), same locality, 20 April 2005. The 16S rDNA
sequence for one of the I. stilesi females showed 100% agreement with
the sequence for this species deposited in GenBank. The morphology of our
nymphal specimens agrees with a recently published description of the nymph,
but our females of I. stilesi differ from the redescription of a partly
engorged female in four respects: 1) cornua prominent and triangular instead
of small, rectangular and blunt; 2) hypostome pointed instead of rounded
apically; 3) genital aperture situated between coxae III and IV instead of
between coxae II and III; 4) anal groove horseshoe shaped instead of U shaped.
In the female described earlier, the cornua and hypostomal apex were likely
damaged when the specimen was removed from its host, while differences in the
position of the genital aperture and shape of the anal groove may be due to
the effects of engorgement on the integument. This is the first record of I.
stilesi from O. longicaudatus.

Key words: Ixodes stilesi, morphology, female,
nymph, Oligoryzomys longicaudatus, Chile

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