First record of the sea snake tick Amblyomma nitidum Hirst and Hirst, 1910 (Acari: Ixodidae) from Taiwan.

作者: Mackenzie L. Kwak , Chi-Chien Kuo , Ho-Tsung Chu

DOI: 10.1016/J.TTBDIS.2020.101383

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摘要: The sea snake tick (Amblyomma nitidum) is a host specialist of snakes in the genus Laticauda and one few ticks which could be regarded as semi-marine. Yet despite attention this species has received due to its bizarre ecology, distribution remains poorly known geographic records occurrence through Asia-Pacific are highly fragmentary. For first time recorded from Taiwan based on specimens collected yellow-lipped krait (Laticauda colubrina).

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