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Rhipicephalus microplus larvae: first report in bats, Molossus rufus

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Cattle are the main hosts of Rhipicephalus microplus; however, this ixodid can also parasitize other animal species. We collected a specimen of R. microplus larvae from one bat Molossus rufus (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Cachoeirinha municipality (29° 56’ 52’’ S and 51° 5’ 43’’ W), Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The specimen was taxonomically identified using identification keys (Vargas 2006). This study reports the first occurrence of this species parasitizing insectivorous bats in Brazil.

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  1. Laboratório de Doenças Parasitárias (LADOPAR), Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva, Centro de Ciências Rurais (CCR), Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Av. Roraima, nº 1000, Prédio 63D, Bairro Camobi, CEP: 97105-900, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

    Daniele da Silva, Fabiana Raquel Ratzlaff, Vanessa Osmari, Fagner D’ambroso Fernandes, Fernanda Silveira Flores Vogel & Luis Antonio Sanigioni

  2. Faculdade Santo Ângelo (FASA), Rua do Seminário, nº 188, Bairro Vera Cruz, CEP: 98807-296, Santo Ângelo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

    Fagner D’ambroso Fernandes

  3. Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

    Elizabete Captivo Lourenço

  4. Departamento de Parasitologia Animal, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

    Katia Maria Famadas

  5. Centro Estadual de Vigilância em Saúde (CEVS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

    Aline Campos

  6. Divisão de Defesa Sanitária Animal (DDA), Pecuária e Desenvolvimento Rural (SEAPDRA), Secretaria da Agricultura, Porto Alegre, Brasil

    André Alberto Witt

  7. Instituto Sauver - Organização não Governamental, Porto Alegre, Brasil

    Susi Missil Pacheco

  8. Laboratório de Saúde Única (LaSUS), Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva, Centro de Ciências Rurais (CCR), Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Av. Roraima, nº 1000, Prédio 44, Bairro Camobi, CEP: 97105-900, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

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Conceptualization and methodology, Daniele da Silva, Fabiana Raquel Ratzlaff, Vanessa Osmari, Fagner D’ambroso Fernandes, Elizabete Captivo Lourenço, Katia Maria Famadas, Aline Campos, André Alberto Witt, SusiMissil Pacheco, Luis Antonio Sangioni; investigation, Daniele da Silva, Fagner D’ambroso Fernandes, Fernanda Silveira Flores Vogel, Luis Antonio Sangioni; writing—original draft preparation, Daniele da Silva, Fagner D’ambroso Fernandes, Luis Antonio Sangioni; writing—review and editing, Daniele da Silva, Fagner D’ambroso Fernandes, Luis Antonio Sangioni; supervision, Sônia de Avila Botton, Fernanda Silveira Flores Vogel, Luis Antonio Sangioni.

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da Silva, D., Ratzlaff, F.R., Osmari, V. et al. Rhipicephalus microplus larvae: first report in bats, Molossus rufus. Vet Res Commun 47, 1749–1751 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11259-022-10050-5

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