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First report of abnormal morphology in the tick Dermacentor dissimilis (Acari: Ixodidae) and evidence of molt nymph-adult on hosts from Nicaragua

Year 2020, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 46 - 50, 31.01.2020

Lillian Domınguez , Eveling Perez Sergio Bermudez Castıllero

Abstract

A total of 10 females and
6 males of Dermacentor dissimilis
were collected from horses and cows in Nicaragua. Four of these females
presented malformations, while two nymphs were in the process of molting to
adult. Further studies are necessary to find out whether this phenomenon is
widespread among D. dissimilis specimens, and what the reasons for such
malformations could be. Moreover, further research is necessary to better
understand the life-cycle of D.
dissimilis.

Keywords

Dermacentor dissimilis malformations ectromely two-hosts tick

Supporting Institution

Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Servicio Aleman de Intercambio Academico

Thanks

We would like to thanks Joao Varela-Petrucelli (Ministerio de Desarrollo Agropecuario, Panamá) and Santiago Nava (Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Argentina) for his comments to the early version of the manuscript and the revision and corrections of the English.

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  • Bermúdez S., Mejía L., Hernández L. and Apanaskevich D. 2015. First records of Ixodes boliviensis Neumann, 1904 and Dermacentor dissimilis Cooley, 1947 (Ixodida: Ixodidae) as parasites of domestic mammals in Nicaragua. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 20 (4): 462-464. doi: 10.11158/saa.20.4.12
  • Buczek, A., Bartosik, K., Buczek, S. and Zajac, Z. 2017. Anomalies in Hyalomma marginatum larvae (Acari: Ixodidae) in relation to taxonomic studies. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 22 (3): 423-430. doi: 10.11158/saa.22.3.8
  • Camicas, J., Hervy, J., Adam, F. and Morel, P. 1998. Les Tiques du Monde. Nomenclature, Stades Décrits, Hôtes, Répartition (Acarida, Ixodida). Éditions de L'Orstom. Paris, 223 pp.
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  • Chitimia-Dobler, L., Bestehorn, M., Bröker, M., Borde, J., Molcanyi, T., Andersen, N., Pfeffer, M. and Dobler, G. 2017. Morphological anomalies in Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes inopinatus collected from tick-borne encephalitis natural foci in Central Europe. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 72:379-397. doi: 10.1007/s10493-017-0163-5
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  • Dergousoff, S. and Chilton, N. 2007. Abnormal morphology of an adult Rocky Mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni (Acari: Ixodidae). Journal of Parasitology, 93: 708-709. doi: 10.1645/GE-1073R.1
  • Guglielmone, A. Castella, A., Mangold, A., Estrada-Peña, A., Viñabal, E. 1999. Phenotypic anomalies in a collection of Neotropical ticks (Ixodidae). Acarologia, 40: 127-132.
  • Guglielmone, A., Estrada-Peña, A., Keirans, J. and Robbins R. 2003. Ticks (Acari: Ixodida) of the Neotropical zoogeographic region. International Consortium on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, Houten, The Netherlands, 173 pp.
  • Guglielmone, A., Robbins, R., Apanaskevich, D., Petney, T., Estrada-Peña, A. and Horak, I. 2014. The Hard Ticks of the World (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae). Springer, Dordrecht, xiii. 738 pp.
  • Guzmán-Cornejo C., Robbins, R., Guglielmone, A., Montiel-Parra, G., Rivas, G. and Pérez, T. 2016. The Dermacentor (Acari, Ixodida, Ixodidae) of Mexico: hosts, geographical distribution and new records. ZooKeys, 569: 1-22. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.569.7221
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  • Kar, S., Akyildiz, G., Yilmazer, N., Shaibi, T., Gargili, A. and Vatansever, Z. 2015. External morphological anomalies in ixodid ticks from Thrace, Turkey. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 67: 457-466. doi: 10.1007/s10493-015-9948-6
  • Kohls, G. and Dalmat, H. 1952. The male of Dermacentor dissimilis Cooley (Acarina: Ixodidae). The Journal of Parasitology, 38 (2): 144-142. doi: 10.2307/3273832
  • Labruna, M., Ribeiro, A., Cruz, M., Camargo, L. and Camargo, E. 2002. Gynandromorphism in Amblyomma cajennense and Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Acari: Ixodidae). The Journal of Parasitology, 88: 810-811. doi: 10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[0810:GIACAR]2.0. CO;2
  • Muñoz-Leal, S., Martins, T., Luna, L., Rodriguez, A. and Labruna, M. 2018. A new collection of Amblyomma parvitarsum (Acari: Ixodidae) in Peru, with description of a gynandromorph and report of Rickettsia detection. Journal of Medical Entomology, 55 (2): 464-467. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjx194
  • Neumann, L. 1899. Anomalie d'ixodidés. Archives Parasitologie, 2: 463-465.
  • Nowak-Chmura, M. 2012. Teratological changes in tick morphology in ticks feeding on exotic reptiles. Journal of Natural History, 46: 911-921. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2011.651635
  • Oliver, J. and Delfin, E. 1967. Gynandromorphism in Der-macentor occidentalis (Acari:Ixodidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 60: 1119-1121.
  • Rivera-Páez F., Larbuna M., Martins T., Rodrigues-Sampieri B. and Camargo-Mathias M. 2017. A case of gynandromorphism in Amblyomma mixtum (Acari. Ixodidae). Revista Colombiana de Entomología, 43 (2): 268-270. doi: 10.25100/socolen.v43i2.5956
  • Robinson, L. 1920. Malformations in ticks. Parasitology, 12: 175-179. doi: 10.25100/socolen.v43i2.5956
  • Tovornik, D. 1987. Teratological forms of ixodid ticks. Bioloski Vestnik, 35: 91-100.
  • Yunker, C., Keirans, J., Clifford, C. and Easton, E. 1986. Dermacentor ticks of the New World: a scanning electron microscope atlas. Proceeding of the Entomological Society of Washington, 88: 609-627.

Year 2020, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 46 - 50, 31.01.2020

Lillian Domınguez , Eveling Perez Sergio Bermudez Castıllero

Abstract

References

  • Apanaskevich, D. and Bermúdez, S. 2013. Description of a new Dermacentor species, a parasite of wild mammals in Central America. Journal of Medical Entomology, 50: 1190-1201. doi: 10.1603/ME13121
  • Bermúdez S., Mejía L., Hernández L. and Apanaskevich D. 2015. First records of Ixodes boliviensis Neumann, 1904 and Dermacentor dissimilis Cooley, 1947 (Ixodida: Ixodidae) as parasites of domestic mammals in Nicaragua. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 20 (4): 462-464. doi: 10.11158/saa.20.4.12
  • Buczek, A., Bartosik, K., Buczek, S. and Zajac, Z. 2017. Anomalies in Hyalomma marginatum larvae (Acari: Ixodidae) in relation to taxonomic studies. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 22 (3): 423-430. doi: 10.11158/saa.22.3.8
  • Camicas, J., Hervy, J., Adam, F. and Morel, P. 1998. Les Tiques du Monde. Nomenclature, Stades Décrits, Hôtes, Répartition (Acarida, Ixodida). Éditions de L'Orstom. Paris, 223 pp.
  • Campana-Rouget, Y. 1959a. La tératologie des tiques. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 34: 209-260. doi: 10.1051/parasite/1959341209
  • Campana-Rouget, Y. 1959b. La tératologie des tiques (fin). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 34: 354-431. doi: 10.1051/parasite/1959343354
  • Chitimia-Dobler, L. and Pfeffer, M. 2017. Gynandromorphism and local morphological abnormalities in Dermacentor reticulatus (Acari: Ixodidae). Systematic and Applied Acarology, 22 (4): 449-455. doi: 10.11158/saa.22.4.1
  • Chitimia-Dobler, L., Bestehorn, M., Bröker, M., Borde, J., Molcanyi, T., Andersen, N., Pfeffer, M. and Dobler, G. 2017. Morphological anomalies in Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes inopinatus collected from tick-borne encephalitis natural foci in Central Europe. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 72:379-397. doi: 10.1007/s10493-017-0163-5
  • Cooley, R. 1947. Dermacentor dissimilis, a new species of ticks from southern Mexico. American Museum Novitates, 1332: 1-3.
  • Dergousoff, S. and Chilton, N. 2007. Abnormal morphology of an adult Rocky Mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni (Acari: Ixodidae). Journal of Parasitology, 93: 708-709. doi: 10.1645/GE-1073R.1
  • Guglielmone, A. Castella, A., Mangold, A., Estrada-Peña, A., Viñabal, E. 1999. Phenotypic anomalies in a collection of Neotropical ticks (Ixodidae). Acarologia, 40: 127-132.
  • Guglielmone, A., Estrada-Peña, A., Keirans, J. and Robbins R. 2003. Ticks (Acari: Ixodida) of the Neotropical zoogeographic region. International Consortium on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, Houten, The Netherlands, 173 pp.
  • Guglielmone, A., Robbins, R., Apanaskevich, D., Petney, T., Estrada-Peña, A. and Horak, I. 2014. The Hard Ticks of the World (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae). Springer, Dordrecht, xiii. 738 pp.
  • Guzmán-Cornejo C., Robbins, R., Guglielmone, A., Montiel-Parra, G., Rivas, G. and Pérez, T. 2016. The Dermacentor (Acari, Ixodida, Ixodidae) of Mexico: hosts, geographical distribution and new records. ZooKeys, 569: 1-22. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.569.7221
  • Homsher, P. and Yunker, C. 1981. Bilateral gynandromorphism in Dermacentor andersoni (Acari:Ixodidae): morphological and cytogenetic analysis. Journal of Medical Entomology, 18, 89-91. doi: 10.1093/jmedent/18.1.89
  • Kar, S., Akyildiz, G., Yilmazer, N., Shaibi, T., Gargili, A. and Vatansever, Z. 2015. External morphological anomalies in ixodid ticks from Thrace, Turkey. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 67: 457-466. doi: 10.1007/s10493-015-9948-6
  • Kohls, G. and Dalmat, H. 1952. The male of Dermacentor dissimilis Cooley (Acarina: Ixodidae). The Journal of Parasitology, 38 (2): 144-142. doi: 10.2307/3273832
  • Labruna, M., Ribeiro, A., Cruz, M., Camargo, L. and Camargo, E. 2002. Gynandromorphism in Amblyomma cajennense and Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Acari: Ixodidae). The Journal of Parasitology, 88: 810-811. doi: 10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[0810:GIACAR]2.0. CO;2
  • Muñoz-Leal, S., Martins, T., Luna, L., Rodriguez, A. and Labruna, M. 2018. A new collection of Amblyomma parvitarsum (Acari: Ixodidae) in Peru, with description of a gynandromorph and report of Rickettsia detection. Journal of Medical Entomology, 55 (2): 464-467. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjx194
  • Neumann, L. 1899. Anomalie d'ixodidés. Archives Parasitologie, 2: 463-465.
  • Nowak-Chmura, M. 2012. Teratological changes in tick morphology in ticks feeding on exotic reptiles. Journal of Natural History, 46: 911-921. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2011.651635
  • Oliver, J. and Delfin, E. 1967. Gynandromorphism in Der-macentor occidentalis (Acari:Ixodidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 60: 1119-1121.
  • Rivera-Páez F., Larbuna M., Martins T., Rodrigues-Sampieri B. and Camargo-Mathias M. 2017. A case of gynandromorphism in Amblyomma mixtum (Acari. Ixodidae). Revista Colombiana de Entomología, 43 (2): 268-270. doi: 10.25100/socolen.v43i2.5956
  • Robinson, L. 1920. Malformations in ticks. Parasitology, 12: 175-179. doi: 10.25100/socolen.v43i2.5956
  • Tovornik, D. 1987. Teratological forms of ixodid ticks. Bioloski Vestnik, 35: 91-100.
  • Yunker, C., Keirans, J., Clifford, C. and Easton, E. 1986. Dermacentor ticks of the New World: a scanning electron microscope atlas. Proceeding of the Entomological Society of Washington, 88: 609-627.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Structural Biology
Journal Section Research Note
Authors

Lillian Domınguez 0000-0003-4636-5876

Eveling Perez This is me 0000-0002-9598-7367

Sergio Bermudez Castıllero 0000-0003-1830-3133

Publication Date January 31, 2020
Published in Issue Year 2020 Volume: 2 Issue: 1

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APA Domınguez, L., Perez, E., & Bermudez Castıllero, S. (2020). First report of abnormal morphology in the tick Dermacentor dissimilis (Acari: Ixodidae) and evidence of molt nymph-adult on hosts from Nicaragua. Acarological Studies, 2(1), 46-50.
AMA Domınguez L, Perez E, Bermudez Castıllero S. First report of abnormal morphology in the tick Dermacentor dissimilis (Acari: Ixodidae) and evidence of molt nymph-adult on hosts from Nicaragua. Acarol. Stud. January 2020;2(1):46-50.
Chicago Domınguez, Lillian, Eveling Perez, and Sergio Bermudez Castıllero. “First Report of Abnormal Morphology in the Tick Dermacentor Dissimilis (Acari: Ixodidae) and Evidence of Molt Nymph-Adult on Hosts from Nicaragua”. Acarological Studies 2, no. 1 (January 2020): 46-50.
EndNote Domınguez L, Perez E, Bermudez Castıllero S (January 1, 2020) First report of abnormal morphology in the tick Dermacentor dissimilis (Acari: Ixodidae) and evidence of molt nymph-adult on hosts from Nicaragua. Acarological Studies 2 1 46–50.
IEEE L. Domınguez, E. Perez, and S. Bermudez Castıllero, “First report of abnormal morphology in the tick Dermacentor dissimilis (Acari: Ixodidae) and evidence of molt nymph-adult on hosts from Nicaragua”, Acarol. Stud., vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 46–50, 2020.
ISNAD Domınguez, Lillian et al. “First Report of Abnormal Morphology in the Tick Dermacentor Dissimilis (Acari: Ixodidae) and Evidence of Molt Nymph-Adult on Hosts from Nicaragua”. Acarological Studies 2/1 (January 2020), 46-50.
JAMA Domınguez L, Perez E, Bermudez Castıllero S. First report of abnormal morphology in the tick Dermacentor dissimilis (Acari: Ixodidae) and evidence of molt nymph-adult on hosts from Nicaragua. Acarol. Stud. 2020;2:46–50.
MLA Domınguez, Lillian et al. “First Report of Abnormal Morphology in the Tick Dermacentor Dissimilis (Acari: Ixodidae) and Evidence of Molt Nymph-Adult on Hosts from Nicaragua”. Acarological Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2020, pp. 46-50.
Vancouver Domınguez L, Perez E, Bermudez Castıllero S. First report of abnormal morphology in the tick Dermacentor dissimilis (Acari: Ixodidae) and evidence of molt nymph-adult on hosts from Nicaragua. Acarol. Stud. 2020;2(1):46-50.
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