1. Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases of Colorado, Including New State Records for Argas radiatus(Ixodida: Argasidae) and Ixodes brunneus(Ixodida: Ixodidae)
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Hutcheson, H Joel, Mertins, James W, Kondratieff, Boris C, and White, Monica M
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We report 28 species of ticks (Acari: Ixodida) from Colorado (CO). We include the soft ticks (Argasidae) Argas(Argas) cooleyiKohls and Hoogstraal, Argas(Persicargas) radiatusRailliet, Carios(Alectorobius) concanensis(Cooley and Kohls), Carios(Alectorobius) kelleyi(Cooley and Kohls), Ornithodoros(Pavlovskyella) hermsiWheeler et al., Ornithodoros(Pavlovskyella) parkeriCooley, Ornithodoros(Pavlovskyella) turicata(Dugès), Otobius(Otobius) lagophilusCooley and Kohls, and Otobius(Otobius) megnini(Dugès). We include the metastriate hard ticks (Ixodidae) Dermacentor(Americentor) albipictus(Packard), Dermacentor(Dermacentor) andersoniStiles, Dermacentor(Dermacentor) parumapertusNeumann, Dermacentor(Dermacentor) variabilis(Say), Haemaphysalis(Aboimisalis) chordeilis(Packard), Haemaphysalis(Gonixodes) leporispalustris(Packard), and Rhipicephalus(Rhipicephalus) sanguineusLatreille. Prostriate hard ticks include Ixodes(Ixodiopsis) angustusNeumann, Ixodes(Phoeloioxdes) baergiCooley and Kohls, Ixodes(Trichotoixodes) brunneusKoch, Ixodes(Scaphixodes) howelliCooley and Kohls, Ixodes(Phoeloioxdes) kingiBishopp, Ixodes(Phoeloioxdes) marmotaeCooley and Kohls, Ixodes(Ixodiopsis) ochotonaeGregson, Ixodes(Phoeloioxdes) sculptusNeumann, Ixodes(Ixodiopsis) soricisGregson, Ixodes(Ixodes) spinipalpisHadwen and Nuttall, Ixodes(Phoeloioxdes) texanusBanks, and Ixodes(Ixodiopsis) woodiBishopp. Argas radiatusand Ixodes brunneusrepresent new state records. Review of collection reports revealed that inclusion of Ixodes(Multidentatus) auritulus(Neumann), Ixodes(Phoeloioxdes) cookeiPackard, Ixodes(Phoeloioxdes) marxiBanks, and Ixodes(Ixodes) pacificusCooley and Kohls is dubious or unconfirmed and, conversely, that C. concanensisand H. chordeilishave distributions that include CO. We list an additional five species occasionally detected and 13 exotic species intercepted in CO. Tick-host associations, geographical distributions, and medical/veterinary importance are included.
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- 2021
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