Carios erraticus

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Carios erraticus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Ixodida
Family: Argasidae
Genus: Carios
Species:
C. erraticus
Binomial name
Carios erraticus
Synonyms[2][3]

Carios erraticus, formerly called Ornithodoros erraticus,[2][3] is a species of tick in the family Argasidae. The tick was described by Hippolyte Lucas in 1849.

Description

The tick is native to the Middle East and Mediterranean.[4] It is one of the more common soft ticks to bite humans.[4] Their main food sources in Spain are pigs; the tick has been found in pig pens in the provinces of Salamanca, Badajoz, and Huelva.[5] The only human habitats the tick can enter are places in poor condition.[6]

Pathology

This species carries the pathogenic

Borrelia crocidurae and Borrelia hispanica.[4] When the tick is infected by B. crocidurae, the disease affects its genetic organ, the testes in males and the ovaries in females. The tick transmits the African swine fever virus only in Spain and Portugal.[8]

The tick feeds at night, ingesting blood to repletion in about 15 minutes. Small mammals are the most common hosts;[9] this species rarely bites humans, preferring other vertebrates.[6] The tick has substances in its saliva, such as antihemostatic, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory molecules, which help the tick get blood from the host and transfer pathogens easily.[10] Major factors in their feeding relationship are mating, recent feeding, and size.

Some strains of entomopathogenic fungi have been found to be effective against this tick and others in the related genus Ornithodoros in a study which concluded the fungi could be used as biocontrol agents for argasid ticks;[11] the name of this is called hyperparasitism.[12]

References

  1. ^ Hallan, Joel (24 March 2008). "Argasidae" (text). Catalog of the Acari. Texas A&M University Department of Entomology. Archived from the original on 13 November 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
  2. ^ a b Carios erraticus Lucas, 1849 in GBIF Secretariat (2016). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist Dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/2184504 Archived 2017-10-02 at the Wayback Machine on 2017-10-02.
  3. ^ a b Nijhof A.M., Guglielmone A.A. & Horak I.G. (2017). TicksBase (version 5.6, Jun 2005). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. (2017). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 29th September 2017. Digital resource at http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/4e7795c13f4daacac24b26026b35939f Archived 2017-10-02 at the Wayback Machine . Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
  4. ^
    S2CID 3351559
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  5. PMID 2301109.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link
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  6. ^ a b National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences; Division Of Medical Sciences, National Research Council (U.S.) (1962). Tropical health: a report on a study of needs and resources. National Academies. p. 497. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
  7. ISBN 978-0-306-43359-7
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  8. ISBN 978-0-12-372500-4. Archived
    from the original on 2017-09-23. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
  9. ISBN 978-0-7216-9329-3
    . Retrieved 2010-06-02.
  10. PMID 17916501. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on 2017-08-14. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  11. PMID 18976863. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on 2017-08-19. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  12. PMID 6827441
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