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A rare finding of mites (Arachnida: Acari: Leeuwenhoekiidae) parasitising a whip spider (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae)
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Folia Parasitologica. Ceske Budejovice: Folia Parasitologica, v. 61, n. 2, p. 182-184, 2014.
0015-5683
WOS:000335539800009
Autor
Goncalves-Souza, Thiago
Giupponi, Alessandro P. L.
Hernandes, Fablo A. [UNESP]
Resumen
Twelve larvae of unidentified species of Odontacarus Ewing, 1929 (Acari: Leeuwenhoekiidae) were found parasitising an adult male whip spider Charinus brasilianus Weygoldt (Charinidae) in Santa Teresa, mountainous region of Espirito Santo state, southeastern Brazil. These larvae occurred in the intersegmental membrane of prosoma and legs. This is the first report of ectoparasitic mites infecting a charinid whip spider and the first record of leeuwenhoekiid mites parasitising an invertebrate host. We suggest that future studies are essential to understand the reasons why these events of parasitism are so rare in the order Amblypygi. PETROBRAS Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Univ Estadual Campinas, UNICAMP, Inst Biol, Dept Biol Anim, BR-13083970 Campinas, SP, Brazil Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Lab Referencia Nacl Vetores Riquetsioses, Colecao Artropodes Vetores Apteros Imp Saude Comi, Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista Jnlio Mesquita Filho, Inst Biociencias Rio Claro, Dept Zool, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista Jnlio Mesquita Filho, Inst Biociencias Rio Claro, Dept Zool, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil FAPESP: 11/50145-0 FAPESP: 11/20805-8