Ixodes ricinus (Ixodidae), an occasional phoront on necrophagous and coprophagous beetles in Europe /
Marta I. Saloña-Bordas, Pablo Bahillo de la Puebla, Beatriz Díaz-Martín, Jason Sumner, M. Alejandra Perotti.
-- [S.l.]: Springer, 2015.
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For ticks, phoretic behaviour using insects associated with vertebrates might offer an alternative strategy to host-seeking. Here we report for the first time the presence of immature stages of the most widespread tick species in Western Europe, Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae), on three beetle species belonging to families Silphidae and Geotrupidae (Coleoptera). Specimens were collected while performing fieldwork surveys on insect
diversity during the peak of tick’s questing behaviour, in July and August of 2009 and 2010. The collections took place in two Natural Parks, the Aiako Harria, Guipu´zcoa in Northern Spain and Wellington Country Park, Berkshire, in England. The silphid beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides and the geotrupid Trypocopris pyrenaeus were collected from pig-carcasses and both carried nymphs of I. ricinus; the geotrupid Anoplotrupes stercorosus
was carrying a tick larva while feeding on red deer dung. These findings revealed an unnoticed but common relation of ticks not only with decomposed.
Saloña-Bordas, M.I., Bahillo de la Puebla, P., Díaz-Martín, B., Sumner, J., Perotti, M.A., 2015. Exp. Appl. Acarol. 65:243–248. DOI 10.1007/s10493-014-9867-y.
Tick
Ixodes ricinus
Silphidae
Geotrupidae
Phoretic
Phoresy
Carcass
Restringido
For ticks, phoretic behaviour using insects associated with vertebrates might offer an alternative strategy to host-seeking. Here we report for the first time the presence of immature stages of the most widespread tick species in Western Europe, Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae), on three beetle species belonging to families Silphidae and Geotrupidae (Coleoptera). Specimens were collected while performing fieldwork surveys on insect
diversity during the peak of tick’s questing behaviour, in July and August of 2009 and 2010. The collections took place in two Natural Parks, the Aiako Harria, Guipu´zcoa in Northern Spain and Wellington Country Park, Berkshire, in England. The silphid beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides and the geotrupid Trypocopris pyrenaeus were collected from pig-carcasses and both carried nymphs of I. ricinus; the geotrupid Anoplotrupes stercorosus
was carrying a tick larva while feeding on red deer dung. These findings revealed an unnoticed but common relation of ticks not only with decomposed.
Saloña-Bordas, M.I., Bahillo de la Puebla, P., Díaz-Martín, B., Sumner, J., Perotti, M.A., 2015. Exp. Appl. Acarol. 65:243–248. DOI 10.1007/s10493-014-9867-y.
Tick
Ixodes ricinus
Silphidae
Geotrupidae
Phoretic
Phoresy
Carcass