Experimental and Applied Acarology (2016) 70, 125-135

Christiane Düttmann, Byron Flores, Nathaniel Kadoch and Sergio Bermúdez (2016)
Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of livestock in Nicaragua, with notes about distribution
Experimental and Applied Acarology 70 (1), 125-135
Abstract: We document the species of ticks that parasitize livestock in Nicaragua. The study was based on tick collection on cattle and horses from 437 farms in nine departments. Of 4841 animals examined (4481 cows and 360 horses), 3299 were parasitized, which represent 68 % of the bovines and 67 % of the equines in study: 59 cows and 25 horses were parasitized by more than one species. In addition, 280 specimens of the entomological museum in León were examined. The ticks found on cattle were Rhipicephalus microplus (75.2 % of the ticks collected), Amblyomma mixtum (20.8 %), A. parvum (2.6 %), A. tenellum (0.7 %), A. maculatum (0.7 %). While the ticks collected from the horses were: Dermacentor nitens (41.5 %), A. mixtum (31.7 %), R. microplus (13.8 %), A. parvum (6.5 %), A. tenellum (3.3 %), D. dissimilis (2.4 %) and A. maculatum (0.8 %).
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Database assignments for author(s): Sergio E. Bermudez

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
surveys/sampling/distribution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Amblyomma maculatum		Nicaragua
	Rhipicephalus microplus		Nicaragua
	Dermacentor nitens		Nicaragua
	Amblyomma parvum		Nicaragua
	Amblyomma mixtum		Nicaragua