[Redescription of Haemaphysalis flava and Ixodes tanuki collected from a raccoon dog in Korea]

Korean J Parasitol. 1997 Mar;35(1):1-8. doi: 10.3347/kjp.1997.35.1.1.
[Article in Korean]

Abstract

A total of 135 hard ticks consisting of 2 species of 2 genera, 117 Haemaphysalis flava and 18 Ixodes tanuki, were collected from a Korean raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides koreensis) caught at the Moaksan (Mt.). Chollabuk-do, Korea in March 1995. It is the first record that I. tanuki appears in the Korean fauna.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Female
  • Korea
  • Male
  • Raccoons / parasitology*
  • Ticks / anatomy & histology*