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Systematic & Applied Acarology
(2009) 14, 213–215.New records of
Ixodes paranaensis (Acari: Ixodidae) from Minas Gerais, southeastern BrazilFILIPE DANTAS-TORRES
1, LEOPOLDO F. DE O. BERNARDI2, MARCONI SOUZA-SILVA3, RODRIGO L. FERREIRA2, VALERIA C. ONOFRIO4, DARCI M. BARROS-BATTESTI4 & MARCELO B. LABRUNA5
1Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica e Zootecnia, Università degli Studi di Bari, Strada Provinciale per Casamassima km 3, 70010 Valenzano, Bari, Italia. E-mail: f.dantastorres@veterinaria.uniba.it
2Setor de Zoologia/Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
3Centro Universitário de Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
4Laboratório de Parasitologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
5Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.Abstract
Ixodes paranaensis is a little-known tick species recently described from specimens collected in Quatro Barras, State of Paraná, southern Brazil. The present report describes the collection of three males and three females of I. paranaensis from a quartzite cave (Gruta dos Fugitivos) in the municipality of Santa Rita de Ibitipoca, State of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. This new record extends the known distribution of I. paranaensis and clarifies our knowledge of the male, which was originally described from a single deformed specimen.
Key words: Ixodes paranaensis, Ixodidae, new record, distribution, Brazil
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Accepted by R.G. Robbins: 9 Dec. 2009
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