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1. Amblyomma tapirellum (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from tropical forest canopy [v2; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/2uy]

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Jose R Loaiza, Matthew J Miller, Eldredge Bermingham, Oris I Sanjur, Patrick A Jansen, Jose R Rovira, Eric Alvarez, Eric Rodriguez, Philip Davis, Larissa C Dutari, James Pecor, Desmond Foley, Meghan Radtke, and Montira J Pongsiri

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Population Ecology, Spatial & Landscape Ecology, Medicine, Science
Abstract

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.

Published
2014
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2. Amblyomma tapirellum (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from tropical forest canopy

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Patrick A. Jansen, Jose R. Loaiza, Eric Alvarez, Oris I. Sanjur, Montira J Pongsiri, James E. Pecor, Eldredge Bermingham, Matthew J. Miller, Eric Rodriguez, Desmond H. Foley, Meghan Radtke, Larissa C. Dutari, Philip Davis, and Jose R. Rovira

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Canopy, Arboreal locomotion, Tree canopy, biology, General Immunology and Microbiology, Ecology, Articles, Vegetation, General Medicine, Tick, biology.organism_classification, PE&RC, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Spatial & Landscape Ecology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Life Science, Observation Article, Acari, Population Ecology, General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, Nymph, Ixodidae
Abstract

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.

Published
2014

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