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EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY
Volume 54, Issue 1, Pages 93-104Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-010-9416-2
Keywords
Carios mimon; Argasid; Adults; Larva; Morphology; Mitochondrial 16S rDNA sequence
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- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo-FAPESP [2007/57749-2]
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico-CNPq [478950/2004-7]
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Carios mimon is an argasid tick common on Chiroptera, originally described from larvae collected on bats Mimon crenulatum from Bolivia and Eptesicus brasiliensis from Uruguay. Later it was also registered from Argentina and recently included among the Brazilian tick fauna. In Brazil, this species is very aggressive to man, resulting in intense inflammatory response and pain. It is known only by the larval description and its morphology resembles that from other species currently included into the genus Carios, formerly classified into the subgenus Alectorobius, genus Ornithodoros. Here we describe adults and redescribe the larva of C. mimon, based on light and scanning electron microscopy. Remarks about its morphological similarity with other species of this genus are also discussed. Molecular analysis inferred from a portion of the 16S rRNA mitochondrial gene placed C. mimon in a cluster supported by maximal bootstrap value (100%) with other argasid species (mostly bat parasites in the New World), which have been classified into either the genus Ornithodoros or Carios, depending on the Argasidae classification adopted by different authors.
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