The life cycle ofAmblyomma pseudoparvum(Acari: Ixodidae) in the laboratory

✍ Scribed by A. J. Mangold; A. A. Guglielmone

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 209 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-8162
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00058600

✦ Synopsis

A colony ofAmblyomma pseudoparvum was started with male and female ticks collected from the cavy-like rodent Dolichotis salinicola, in the Province of Salta, Argentina. These ticks and their progenies were fed on rabbits and the non-parasitic stages maintained in darkness at 27 +_ I°C, 83-86% RH. The life cycle (pre-feeding and oviposition periods not tested) ofA. pseudoparvum had a mean duration of 90.9 days. The mean time (days) for the different periods of the cycle were as follows: Feeding of females, 12.3; pre-oviposition, 5. I ; minimum egg incubation, 33.4; feeding of larvae, 5.6; pre-moult to nymphs, 11.5; feeding of nymphs, 6.9; pre-moult to adults, 16.1. The mean recover), rates of larvae, nymphs and females were 16.0%, 18.7% and 53.0%, respectively.