Morphological abnormalities in ticks Acari Ixodi

Authors: Adem Keskin Eray Simsek Ahmet Bursali Aysun Keskin

Publish Date: 2016/02/26

Volume: 135, Issue: 2, Pages: 167-172

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Abstract

During our parasitological studies on ticks infesting humans we noticed 127 ticks with abnormal morphology Some of these specimens had local abnormalities including the absence of one or two legs one porose area one spiracle while others had also general abnormalities such as asymmetric body gynandromorphism gigantism or caudal constriction Most encountered tick species with abnormalities observed were Hyalomma marginatum n = 113 8897  followed by Hyalomma excavatum n = 3 236  and Rhipicephalus turanicus n = 3 236  Atrophy or lack of the one adanal plate n = 49 3858  was the most encountered local abnormalities Other local abnormalities were atrophy or lack of one leg n = 36 2835  and atrophy or lack one spiracle n = 11 866  The most encountered general abnormalities were asymmetry n = 9 708  constriction n = 5 393  and gynandromorphism n = 4 315  respectively In the present study morphological abnormalities in ticks collected on humans were investigated in detail for the first time and many forms of morphological abnormalities were reported for Turkey

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