TY - JOUR
T1 - Host associations of the snake tick Amblyomma cordiferum Neumann, 1899 (Ixodida: Ixodidae), with new host records from Taiwan
AU - Amarga, Ace Kevin S.
AU - Lin, Wen Loung
AU - Fu, Yu Syuan
AU - Fang, Wei Hsuan
AU - Robbins, Richard G.
AU - Lin, Si Min
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Systematic & Applied Acarology Society.
PY - 2023/5/12
Y1 - 2023/5/12
N2 - The ixodid tick Amblyomma cordiferum Neumann, 1899 is an uncommonly collected Old World reptile-associated species that is primarily ectoparasitic on snakes. This tick is known from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Samoa. In Taiwan, A. cordiferum has previously been reported on Elaphe carinata (Günther), Elaphe taeniura (Cope), and Ptyas mucosa (Linnaeus). In this paper, we examined a total of 246 specimens of A. cordiferum from recent and old collections. Here we report new Taiwan records of A. cordiferum parasitizing the Chinese cobra, Naja atra Cantor, many-banded krait, Bungarus multicinctus Blyth, and yellow-spotted keelback, Fowlea flavipunctatus (Hallowell). This is also the first report of A. cordiferum parasitizing members of the venomous family Elapidae in Taiwan, as well as the first report of A. cordiferum parasitizing a member of the colubrid genus Fowlea Theobald. An updated host-parasite list summarizes all known hosts of A. cordiferum throughout this tick’s geographic range.
AB - The ixodid tick Amblyomma cordiferum Neumann, 1899 is an uncommonly collected Old World reptile-associated species that is primarily ectoparasitic on snakes. This tick is known from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Samoa. In Taiwan, A. cordiferum has previously been reported on Elaphe carinata (Günther), Elaphe taeniura (Cope), and Ptyas mucosa (Linnaeus). In this paper, we examined a total of 246 specimens of A. cordiferum from recent and old collections. Here we report new Taiwan records of A. cordiferum parasitizing the Chinese cobra, Naja atra Cantor, many-banded krait, Bungarus multicinctus Blyth, and yellow-spotted keelback, Fowlea flavipunctatus (Hallowell). This is also the first report of A. cordiferum parasitizing members of the venomous family Elapidae in Taiwan, as well as the first report of A. cordiferum parasitizing a member of the colubrid genus Fowlea Theobald. An updated host-parasite list summarizes all known hosts of A. cordiferum throughout this tick’s geographic range.
KW - Amblyomma
KW - Squamata
KW - Taiwan
KW - snakes
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U2 - 10.11158/saa.28.5.4
DO - 10.11158/saa.28.5.4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85162009956
SN - 1362-1971
VL - 28
SP - 815
EP - 827
JO - Systematic and Applied Acarology
JF - Systematic and Applied Acarology
IS - 5
ER -