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External morphological anomalies in ixodid ticks from Thrace, Turkey

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Of 18,667 ticks examined, 33 specimens from species identified as Haemaphysalis parva, Hyalomma marginatum, Hy. scupense, Rhipicephalus bursa and Rh. turanicus were found to have external morphological anomalies. Anomalous Ha. parva, Hy. scupence and Rh. turanicus were reported in this study for the first time. General anomalies manifested as asymmetry and deformations of the idiosoma, whereas local anomalies occurred in legs, exoskeleton, spiracular, adanal, subanal and accessory plates, mouthparts and capitulum. With this study describing a gynandromorphic Hy. marginatum, the number of gynandromorphic tick cases has been raised to two in Turkey.

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  1. Department of Biology, Namik Kemal University, Tekirdag, Turkey

    Sirri Kar, Gurkan Akyildiz & Nadim Yilmazer

  2. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Tripoli University, Tripoli, Libya

    Taher Shaibi

  3. Faculty of Health Science, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Aysen Gargili

  4. Parasitology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey

    Zati Vatansever

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Kar, S., Akyildiz, G., Yilmazer, N. et al. External morphological anomalies in ixodid ticks from Thrace, Turkey. Exp Appl Acarol 67, 457–466 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-015-9948-6

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