A new species of soft tick from dry tropical forests of Brazilian Caatinga.
Argasidae
Brazil
Ornithodoros
Soft tick
Taxonomy
Journal
Ticks and tick-borne diseases
ISSN: 1877-9603
Titre abrégé: Ticks Tick Borne Dis
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101522599
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2021
09 2021
Historique:
received:
11
01
2021
revised:
26
10
2020
accepted:
18
01
2021
pubmed:
31
5
2021
medline:
8
9
2021
entrez:
30
5
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Ornithodoros tabajara n. sp. is described from laboratory-reared larvae and adult specimens collected in the Brazilian Caatinga. This new species shares the ecological niche with Ornithodoros rietcorreai and is likely associated with colonial rodents of genus Kerodon. However, O. tabajara n. sp. is morphologically easy to distinguish from O. rietcorreai and other Neotropical Ornithodoros by a unique combination of characters: larva with 17 pairs of dorsal setae (seven anterolateral, three central and seven posterolateral), sub-oval dorsal plate, hypostome blunt apically with dentition formula 2/2 along its extension, only one pair of posthypostomal setae, six pairs of sternal setae, posteromedian setae absent, and leave-shaped anal valves; alive adults with whitish islands of mammillae symmetrically distributed on dorsum (not visible in ethanol-preserved specimens), and median disk merging with posteromedian file. A phylogenetic analysis performed with mitochondrial 16S rDNA sequences points O. tabajara n. sp. as O. rietcorreai's sister taxon, which rises the hypothesis of sympatric speciation.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34052668
pii: S1877-959X(21)00101-1
doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2021.101748
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
101748Informations de copyright
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