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Neotropical Hard Ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) - A Critical Analysis of Their Taxonomy, Distribution, and Host Relationships (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Neotropical Hard Ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) - A Critical Analysis of Their Taxonomy, Distribution, and Host Relationships (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Of the 758 species of hard ticks (family Ixodidae) currently known
to science, 137 (18%) are found in the Neotropical Zoogeographic
Region, an area that extends from the eastern and western flanks of
the Mexican Plateau southward to southern Argentina and Chile and
that also includes the Greater and Lesser Antilles and the
Galapagos Islands. This vast and biotically rich region has long
attracted natural scientists, with the result that the literature
on Neotropical ticks, which are second only to mosquitoes as
vectors of human disease and are of paramount veterinary
importance, is enormous, diffuse, and often inaccessible to
non-specialists. In this book, three leading authorities on the
Ixodidae have combined their talents to produce a summary of
essential information for every Neotropical tick species. Under
each species name, readers will find an account of the original
taxonomic description and subsequent redescriptions, followed by an
overview of its geographic distribution and host relationships,
including a discussion of human parasitism. Additional sections
provide detailed analyses of tick distribution by country and
zoogeographic subregion (the Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central
America, South America, and the Galapagos Islands), together with a
review of the phenomenon of invasive tick species and examination
of the many valid and invalid names that have appeared in the
Neotropical tick literature. The text concludes with an
unprecedented tabulation of all known hosts of Neotropical
Ixodidae, including the tick life history stages collected from
each host. This book is an invaluable reference for biologists and
biomedical personnel seeking to familiarize themselves with the
Neotropical tick fauna.
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