Free-living Panthera onca (Carnivora: Felidae) as host of Amblyomma mixtum and Rhipicephalus microplus (Ixodidae: Ixodidae) in Darién, Panamá

Year 2020, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 51 - 53, 31.01.2020

Lillian Domınguez , Josue Ortega Ricardo Moreno Sergio Bermudez

Abstract

We report the parasitism
of a male of Amblyomma mixtum and a
molt nymph-adult of Rhipicephalus
microplus in Darién, Panamá. These data increase the number of tick species
that parasitize free-living jaguars in Panama and add information on the
environmental conditions that favor the parasitism of A. mixtum and R. microplus.

Keywords

Environment, Panthera onca, Amblyomma mixtum, Rhipicephalus microplus

Supporting Institution

National Secretary of Science and Technology (SENACYT)

Project Number

SENACYT 70-2017

Thanks

To Natalia Young, Arturo Puertes, Edgar Sánchez, Leonardo Pretelt, Alejandra Flores, Iliana Cisneros, Erasmo De León, Jean De Leon, Vayron De Gracia for their support in this project; Antonio De La Torre, Ivonne Cassaigne, Ricardo Jiménez, Bernardo Castillo, Susana Ilescas Furter and Eloisa Astorga, for their support in the capture, management and release of the captured jaguar; Joao Varela-Petrucelli for his revision to the English. Yaguara Panama Foundation has fund of National Secretary of Science and Technology (grant No. 70-2017) and supporting of the Environmental Ministry of Panama (SE/A-15-2019).

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