STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE QUESTING BEHAVIOR IN THE DESERT TICK HYALOMMA ASIATICUM P. SCH. ET E. SCHL. (IXODIDAE)

About author:

Leonovich S.A., Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb. 1, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

Acknowledgments:

I am grateful to Dr. V. Romanenko, Tomsk State University, for the very fruitful discussions and Prof. A. Berdyev, Institute of Zoology, the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan, for providing alive H. asiaticum ticks for the laboratory experiments.

Annotation:

The questing behavior of the desert tick Hyalomma asiaticum is described in ethological terms. Fundamental similarities in behavior of two tick species with different mode of host attack (Ixodespersulcatus and H. asiaticum) are shown.

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