Focus Stacking Images of Morphological Character States for Differentiating the Adults of Ixodes affinis and Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in Areas of Sympatry

Robyn M. Nadolny; Marcée Toliver; Holly D. Gaff; John G. Snodgrass; Richard G. Robbins

doi:10.1093/jme/tjab058

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17 April 2021 Focus Stacking Images of Morphological Character States for Differentiating the Adults of Ixodes affinis and Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in Areas of Sympatry

Robyn M. Nadolny, Marcée Toliver, Holly D. Gaff, John G. Snodgrass, Richard G. Robbins

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J. of Medical Entomology, 58(4):1941-1947 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjab058

Abstract

Adult females and males of Ixodes affinis and Ixodes scapularis are illustrated by focus stacking image photography, and morphological character states are described that reliably differentiate the two species. In conjunction with other environmental cues, such as the questing phenology of adults, these characteristics will enable the rapid identification of adults of either sex along the southern Coastal Plain of the United States, where these species are sympatric.

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America 2021. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.

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Robyn M. Nadolny, Marcée Toliver, Holly D. Gaff, John G. Snodgrass, and Richard G. Robbins "Focus Stacking Images of Morphological Character States for Differentiating the Adults of Ixodes affinis and Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in Areas of Sympatry," Journal of Medical Entomology 58(4), 1941-1947, (17 April 2021). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjab058

Received: 7 December 2020; Accepted: 8 March 2021; Published: 17 April 2021

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