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| Bermudez C, S.E.; Esser, H.J.; Miranda C, R.; Moreno, R.S. | |
| Wild carnivores (Mammalia) as hosts for ticks (Ixodida) in Panama | |
| 2015 Systematic & Applied Acarology (20): 13-19 | |
This study reports ticks collected from wild carnivores from different habitat types in Panama. We examined 94 individual wild carnivores and we found 87 parasitized by ticks: seven coyotes, six crab-eating foxes, 54 coatis, four raccoons, five ocelots, two pumas, two gray foxes, two skunks, and one each of kinkajou, jaguar, jaguarundi, greater grison and tayra. We identified 13 species of tick: _Ornithodoros puertoricensis, Amblyomma auricularium, A. dissimile, A. mixtum, A. oblongoguttatum, A. ovale, A. parvum, A. pecarium, A. tapirellum, A. varium, Haemaphysalis juxtakochi, Ixodes affinis, Rhipicephalus sanguineus s.l. _and immatures of_ Ixodes _and _Amblyomma. Amblyomma ovale _and _A. oblongoguttatum_ were the most common species, found on nine and six carnivore species respectively. This is the first report of _A. oblongoguttatum_ _on Puma yagouaroundi_ and _Procyon lotor_; of _A. dissimile, A. pecarium, A. tapirellum _and_ A. varium _on_ Nasua narica_; and _A. auricularium _on_ P. lotor_. Our data do not enable us to establish incidence of tick parasitism, but add valuable information to the current knowledge of the tick species that infest wild carnivores in Panama. |
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