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SHORT COMMUNICATION - Ixodes (Haemixodes) longiscutatum Boero (New Status) and I. (H.) uruguayensis Kohls & Clifford, a New Synonym of I. (H.) longiscutatum (Acari: Ixodidae)
Females of Ixodes (Haemixodes) uruguayensis Kohls & Clifford, 1967,
a species whose adults were unknown until the present, were obtained in
the laboratory from engorged nymphs collected on rodents (Scapteromys
tumidus and Oxymycterus nasutus ) in the counties of
Maldonado and San José, Uruguay. Morphological characters of these
females were identical to those given in the description of the female
of Ixodes longiscutatum Boero, 1944. I. uruguayensis is, thus,
relegated to a junior subjective synonym of I. longiscutatum. However,
because of the unique morphological characters of the immature stages,
the validity of the subgenus Haemixodes Kohls & Clifford, 1967 is
not questioned. Therefore, the new status of Ixodes (Haemixodes)
uruguayensis Kohls & Clifford, 1967 is Ixodes (Haemixodes)
longiscutatum Boero, 1944