First Description of a New Species of Demodex (Acari: Demodecidae) from Rhesus Monkey

Zuzana Karjala; Clifford E. Desch; Matthew F. Starost

doi:10.1603/0022-2585(2005)042[0948:FDOANS]2.0.CO;2

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Zuzana Karjala,¹ Clifford E. Desch,² Matthew F. Starost³

¹National Institutes of Health, Division of Veterinary Resources, Health Surveillance, Parasitology, Bldg. 28A, Bethesda MD 20892
²Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Hartford Campus, 85 Lawler Rd., West Hartford, CT 06117
³National Institutes of Health, Division of Veterinary Resources, Pathology, Bldg. 28A, Bethesda, MD 20892

Abstract

Species of Demodex live in hair follicles and sebaceous glands of many species of mammals. Demodex macaci n .sp. is described (all life stages) from a captive rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta (Zimmermann, 1780). Mites were found at all levels of the hair follicles and occasionally in sebaceous glands of the skin of the perineal region. This is the first description of a demodectic hair follicle mite from the primate family Cercopithecidae.

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Zuzana Karjala, Clifford E. Desch, and Matthew F. Starost "First Description of a New Species of Demodex (Acari: Demodecidae) from Rhesus Monkey," Journal of Medical Entomology 42(6), 948-952, (1 November 2005). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-2585(2005)042[0948:FDOANS]2.0.CO;2

Received: 31 May 2005; Accepted: 29 July 2005; Published: 1 November 2005