Open AccessRedescription of Haemaphysalis flava and Ixodes tanuki collected from a raccoon dog in Korea
Author(s) -
W K Lee,
Junghwan Lim,
S Y Lee,
I Y Lee
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
korean journal of parasitology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.555
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1738-0006
pISSN - 0023-4001
DOI - 10.3347/kjp.1997.35.1.1
Subject(s) - raccoon dogs , ixodes , haemaphysalis , biology , zoology , fauna , veterinary medicine , tick , ecology , ixodidae , acari , medicine
A total of 135 hard ticks consisting of 2 species of 2 genera, 117 Haemaphysalis flava and 18 Ixodes tanuki, were collected from a Korean raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides koreensis) caught at the Moaksan (Mt.). Chollabuk-do, Korea in March 1995. It is the first record that I. tanuki appears in the Korean fauna.
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