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Morphological abnormalities in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from domestic animal species in Sudan

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Morphological abnormalities in ticks have rarely been reported in nature. The existing knowledge about anomalies in ticks collected in Africa is very sparse. In this paper, we describe abnormalities in Amblyomma, Hyalomma, and Rhipicephalus ticks collected from cattle, sheep, goats, camels, and horses in Kassala and North Kordofan states, Sudan, between January and August 2017. A number of 15 adult ticks displayed one or several local anomalies, such as ectromely, abnormalities of the ventral plates, and body deformities, besides newly described multiple cuticula scars. This study presents the first report of local anomalies in ticks belonging to three genera in Sudan and highlights the need to investigate the association between such morphological abnormalities and tick biology.

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  1. College of Veterinary Medicine, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum North, Sudan

    Yassir Adam Shuaib, Mohamed Abdalsalam Abdalla & Amel Omer Bakhiet

  2. Veterinary Research Institute, Soba, Khartoum, Sudan

    Makarim Habib Isaa

  3. Ministry of Animal Resources, Kassala, Sudan

    Malaz Isam-Eldin Ezz-Eldin

  4. Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Neuherbergstrasse 11, 80937, Munich, Germany

    Lidia Chitimia-Dobler

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Shuaib, Y.A., Isaa, M.H., Ezz-Eldin, M.IE. et al. Morphological abnormalities in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from domestic animal species in Sudan. Exp Appl Acarol 82, 161–169 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-020-00534-x

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