During a survey conducted from August to November 1998 of ticks associated with dogs in the rural area of Uruará, in the state of Para, Eastern Amazon region of Brazil, we collected one gynandromorph specimen out of 18 Amblyomma oblongoguttatum Koch specimens collected from dogs. It is a perfect bipartite gynandromorph, reported in this species for the first time.
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1 September 2000
A Case of Gynandromorphism in Amblyomma oblongoguttatum (Acari: Ixodidae)
Marcelo Bahia Labruna,
Valéria Stacchini Ferreira Homem,
Marcos Bryan Heinemann,
José Soares Ferreira Neto
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Journal of Medical Entomology
Vol. 37 • No. 5
September 2000
Vol. 37 • No. 5
September 2000
Amblyomma oblongoguttatum
gynandromorphism
ticks