First confirmed identification of a male Asian longhorned tick (Ixodida: Ixodidae) in the United States.

Sara F Margrey, James W Mertins, Leeanne C Garrett, Richard Gary, Risa Pesapane
Author Information
  1. Sara F Margrey: Ohio Department of Health, Columbus, OH, USA. ORCID
  2. James W Mertins: USDA APHIS, Veterinary Services, Diagnostics and Biologics, National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Ames, IA, USA. ORCID
  3. Leeanne C Garrett: Ohio Department of Health, Columbus, OH, USA. ORCID
  4. Richard Gary: Ohio Department of Health, Columbus, OH, USA.
  5. Risa Pesapane: Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. ORCID

Abstract

Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann, the Asian longhorned tick (ALT), has quickly established widespread invasive populations in the United States since its first at-large detection in 2017. Until recently, no male ALT has been verifiably collected in the United States, despite examinations of tens of thousands of individual specimens, thus affirming that the US incursion was founded by ticks from a parthenogenetic source population of ALT. This report documents the first validated male ALT specimen in the United States, collected in May 2023 on a cattle farm in Gallia County, Ohio. This specimen shows morphological signs of gynandromorphism in its palps, hypostome, genitalia, and anal aperture.

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  1. /USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture

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