The Korean Journal of Parasitology  2016;54(2):233-238

doi:10.3347/kjp.2016.54.2.233

Ornithodoros sawaii (Ixodida: Argasidae) Larvae Collected from Hydrobates monorhis on Sogugul and Gaerin Islands, Jeollanam-do (Province), Republic of Korea.

Heung Chul KIM 1 2 ; Chang Yong CHOI ; Young Soo KWON ; Seok Min YUN ; Won Ja LEE ; Sung Tae CHONG ; Richard G ROBBINS ; Terry A KLEIN

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Keywords

Argasidae; Ornithodoros sawaii; Hydrobates monorhis; Republic of Korea

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

English

Abstract

The 65th Medical Brigade and Public Health Command District-Korea, in collaboration with the Migratory Bird Research Center, National Park Research Institute, conducted migratory bird tick surveillance at Sogugul and Gaerin Islands (small rocky bird nesting sites), Jeollanam-do (Province), Republic of Korea (ROK), on 30 July and 1 August 2009. Breeding seabirds captured by hands in their nesting burrows were banded, identified to species, and carefully examined for ticks during the nesting season. A total of 9 Ornithodoros sawaii larvae were removed from 4 adult Hydrobates monorhis (Swinhoe's storm petrel). The identification of the larvae of O. sawaii collected from migratory seabirds were molecularly confirmed using mitochondrial 16S rDNA primer sets.