Parasites of domestic and wild animals in South Africa. XLVIII . Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) infesting domestic cats and wild felids in southern Africa

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research

 
 
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Title Parasites of domestic and wild animals in South Africa. XLVIII . Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) infesting domestic cats and wild felids in southern Africa
 
Creator Horak, Ivan G. Heyne, Heloise Donkin, Edward F.
 
Subject — domestic cats; ixodid ticks; 19 species; southern Africa; wild felids
Description Ticks collected from domestic cats (Felis catus), cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus),caracals (Caracal caracal), African wild cats (Felis lybica), black-footed cats (Felis nigripes), a serval (Leptailurus serval), lions(Panthera leo), and leopards (Panthera pardus) were identified and counted. Thirteen species of ixodid ticks and one argasid tick were identified from domestic cats and 17 species of ixodid ticks from wild felids. The domestic cats and wild felids harboured 11 ixodid species in common. The adults of Haemaphysalis elliptica, the most abundant tick species infesting cats and wild felids, were most numerous on a domestic cat in late winter and in mid-summer, during 2 consecutive years. The recorded geographic distribution of the recently described Haemaphysalis colesbergensis, a parasite of cats and caracals, was extended by 2 new locality records in the Northern Cape Province,South Africa.
 
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Date 2010-11-24
 
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Identifier 10.4102/ojvr.v77i1.3
 
Source Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research; Vol 77, No 1 (2010); 7 pages 2219-0635 0030-2465
 
Language eng
 
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