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Amblyomma aureolatum and Ixodes auritulus (Acari: Ixodidae) on birds in southern Brazil, with notes on their ecology

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Between January 1999 and December 2000, 876 bird specimens were captured in three different ecological environments from the Reinhard Maack Park, Curitiba, State of Paraná, southern Brazil. A total of 142 birds (16.2%) were infested with Amblyomma aureolatum (Pallas 1772) (N = 699) and/or Ixodes auritulus Neumann, 1904 (N = 18) ticks. Questing A. aureolatum nymphs (N = 2) and adults (N = 5) were also collected from the soil and the vegetation. None of the I. auritulus were collected off-host. We collected only immatures of A. aureolatum on birds, but all life stages of I. auritulus. The latter species was collected on Turdus rufiventris and on Synallaxis ruficapilla, which is herein recognized as a host of I. auritulus for the first time. Moreover, this is also the first report of A. aureolatum infesting birds, and 16 different bird species were found infested. It was observed that larval infestation was positively correlated with the dry and cold season, while nymphal infestation was positively correlated with the warm and rainy season. Although only 2-years worth of data is provided, our results suggest the infestation of birds by ticks was significantly higher at the biotopes formed by forest at its first stage of regeneration ‘capoeira’ and the original Araucaria forest habitat ‘mata’ than the ecotone between forest and urban areas ‘peripheral area’.

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  1. Museu de História Natural Capão da Imbuia, R. Benedito Conceição, 407, 82810-080, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

    Márcia Arzua

  2. Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-990, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

    Mário Antonio Navarro da Silva

  3. Departamento de Parasitologia Animal, Instituto de Veterinária, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 23890-000, Seropédica, RJ, Brazil

    Kátia Maria Famadas

  4. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, 60 College Street, PO Box 208034, 06520-8034, New Haven, CT, USA

    Lorenza Beati

  5. Laboratório de Parasitologia, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brazil, 1500, 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti

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Arzua, M., Navarro da Silva, M.A., Famadas, K.M. et al. Amblyomma aureolatum and Ixodes auritulus (Acari: Ixodidae) on birds in southern Brazil, with notes on their ecology. Exp Appl Acarol 31, 283–296 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:APPA.0000010381.24903.1c

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