The Life Cycle of the Tick Hyalomma marginatum rufipes Koch (Acarina: Ixodidae) under Laboratory Conditions
- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Parasitology
- Vol. 64 (1) , 143-146
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3279627
Abstract
The life cycle of H. m. rufipes Koch was studied under laboratory conditions at 26 .+-. 1.degree. C. The preoviposition period was 7.1 .+-. 0.23 days. The mean (.+-. SE) number of eggs was 6867 .+-. 2609 (maximum 13,180; minimum 3184). The greatest egg production was recorded on day 3 (average 1170 eggs/female). The incubation period was 29.3 .+-. 2.96 days. The feeding time of larvae and nymphs of this 2-host tick was 22.8 .+-. 0.13 days. Nymphs producing males weighed less (23.1 .+-. 0.748 mg) than those producing females (26.8 .+-. 1.19 mg); the combined larval-nymphal feeding time of the former was shorter (21.9 .+-. 0.1 days) than that of the latter (22.9 .+-. 1.12 days). The premolting period of nymphs to adults of both sexes was similar.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Life Cycle of the Tick Rhipicephalus evertsi evertsi Neumann (Acarina: Ixodidae) under Laboratory ConditionsJournal of Parasitology, 1977