Abstract
The tick Amblyomma parkeri Fonseca and Aragão was described in 1952, based on female and immature ticks collected in the states of São Paulo and Santa Catarina, Brazil. Thereafter, there has been no further report of A. parkeri, and the male has remained unknown. Herein, we examined ticks collected on porcupines from a locality in the state of São Paulo. Some of the ticks were identified as Amblyomma longirostre (Koch, 1844), whereas others as A. parkeri, including male specimens, for which we provide the first description. We also provide additional reports of A. parkeri after examining collections of A. longirostre and Amblyomma geayi Neumann, 1899 from different tick collections. Morphological evidence to support the original description of A. parkeri is presented, supported by molecular analyses of portions of the 16S rRNA and 12S rRNA mitochondrial genes. Morphological particularities to separate A. parkeri, A. longirostre, and A. geayi are provided.
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We are very grateful to Márcio V. Cruz (Instituto de Biociências, USP, Brazil) for his expertise and assistance with scanning electron microscopy, Sandra E. Favorito (Universidade Bandeirante de São Paulo) for providing the opportunity to collect ticks from porcupines, and the Curators Orlando T. Silveira and Augusto L. Henriques of the MPEG and INPA tick collections, respectively. This work was supported by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).
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Labruna, M.B., Onofrio, V.C., Beati, L. et al. Redescription of the female, description of the male, and several new records of Amblyomma parkeri (Acari: Ixodidae), a South American tick species. Exp Appl Acarol 49, 243–260 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-009-9257-z
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