Amblyomma tapirellum  (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from tropical forest canopy

Free-ranging ticks are widely known to be restricted to the ground level of vegetation. Here, we document the capture of the tick species Amblyomma tapirellum in light traps placed in the forest canopy of Barro Colorado Island, central Panama. A total of forty eight adults and three nymphs were remo...

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Autores principales: Loaiza, Jose R, Miller, Matthew J, Bermingham, Eldredge, Sanjur, Oris I, Jansen, Patrick A, Rovira, Jose R, Alvarez, Eric, Rodriguez, Eric, Davis, Philip, Dutari, Larissa C, Pecor, James, Foley, Desmond, Radtke, Meghan, Pongsiri, Montira J
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000Research 2014
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Observation Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4095595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25075277
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-194.v2
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author Loaiza, Jose R
Miller, Matthew J
Bermingham, Eldredge
Sanjur, Oris I
Jansen, Patrick A
Rovira, Jose R
Alvarez, Eric
Rodriguez, Eric
Davis, Philip
Dutari, Larissa C
Pecor, James
Foley, Desmond
Radtke, Meghan
Pongsiri, Montira J
author_facet Loaiza, Jose R
Miller, Matthew J
Bermingham, Eldredge
Sanjur, Oris I
Jansen, Patrick A
Rovira, Jose R
Alvarez, Eric
Rodriguez, Eric
Davis, Philip
Dutari, Larissa C
Pecor, James
Foley, Desmond
Radtke, Meghan
Pongsiri, Montira J
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description Free-ranging ticks are widely known to be restricted to the ground level of vegetation. Here, we document the capture of the tick species Amblyomma tapirellum in light traps placed in the forest canopy of Barro Colorado Island, central Panama. A total of forty eight adults and three nymphs were removed from carbon dioxide–octenol baited CDC light traps suspended 20 meters above the ground during surveys for forest canopy mosquitoes. To our knowledge, this represents the first report of questing ticks from the canopy of tropical forests. Our finding suggests a novel ecological relationship between A. tapirellum and arboreal mammals, perhaps monkeys that come to the ground to drink or to feed on fallen fruits.
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spelling pubmed-40955952014-07-28 Amblyomma tapirellum  (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from tropical forest canopy Loaiza, Jose R Miller, Matthew J Bermingham, Eldredge Sanjur, Oris I Jansen, Patrick A Rovira, Jose R Alvarez, Eric Rodriguez, Eric Davis, Philip Dutari, Larissa C Pecor, James Foley, Desmond Radtke, Meghan Pongsiri, Montira J F1000Res Observation Article Free-ranging ticks are widely known to be restricted to the ground level of vegetation. Here, we document the capture of the tick species Amblyomma tapirellum in light traps placed in the forest canopy of Barro Colorado Island, central Panama. A total of forty eight adults and three nymphs were removed from carbon dioxide–octenol baited CDC light traps suspended 20 meters above the ground during surveys for forest canopy mosquitoes. To our knowledge, this represents the first report of questing ticks from the canopy of tropical forests. Our finding suggests a novel ecological relationship between A. tapirellum and arboreal mammals, perhaps monkeys that come to the ground to drink or to feed on fallen fruits. F1000Research 2014-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4095595/ /pubmed/25075277 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-194.v2 Text en Copyright: © 2014 Loaiza JR et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Data associated with the article are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero "No rights reserved" data waiver (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication).
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Loaiza, Jose R
Miller, Matthew J
Bermingham, Eldredge
Sanjur, Oris I
Jansen, Patrick A
Rovira, Jose R
Alvarez, Eric
Rodriguez, Eric
Davis, Philip
Dutari, Larissa C
Pecor, James
Foley, Desmond
Radtke, Meghan
Pongsiri, Montira J
Amblyomma tapirellum  (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from tropical forest canopy
title Amblyomma tapirellum  (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from tropical forest canopy
title_full Amblyomma tapirellum  (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from tropical forest canopy
title_fullStr Amblyomma tapirellum  (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from tropical forest canopy
title_full_unstemmed Amblyomma tapirellum  (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from tropical forest canopy
title_short Amblyomma tapirellum  (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from tropical forest canopy
title_sort amblyomma tapirellum  (acari: ixodidae) collected from tropical forest canopy
topic Observation Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4095595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25075277
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-194.v2
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