PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH. 107(2). 2005. pp. 245-253 THE TICKS (ACARI: IXODIDA: ARGASIDAE, IXODIDAE) OF TAIWAN: A SYNONYMIC CHECKLIST Richard G. Robbins Defense Pest Management Information Analysis Center, Armed Forces Pest Manage-ment Board, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307-5001, U.S.A. (e-mail:
[email protected]) Abstract. — Eleven checklists of Taiwanese ticks, published or privately circulated be-tween 1935 and 1984, are compared with specimen records, chiefly in the U.S. National Tick Collection, yielding a list of 32 tick species thought to definitely occur in Taiwan and its adjacent islets: Argas pusillus Kohls, A. robertsi Hoogstraal, Kaiser & Kohls, Ornithodoros capensis Neumann, Amblyomma cordiferum Neumann, A. geoemydae (Can-tor), A. helvolum Koch, A. testudinarium Koch, Aponomma varanense (Supino), Boophihis microplus (Canestrini), Dermacentor taiwanensis Sugimoto, Haemaphysalis bandicota Hoogstraal & Kohls, H. canestrinii (Supino), H. doenitzi Warburton & Nuttall, H. flava Neumann, H. fonnosensis Neumann, H. hystricis Supino, H. kitaokai Hoogstraal, H. ma-ge shimaensis Saito & Hoogstraal, H. ornithophila Hoogstraal & Kohls, H. phasiana Saito, Hoogstraal & Wassef, H. taiwana Sugimoto, H. yeni Toumanoff, Ixodes acutitarsus (Karsch), /. granulatiis Supino, /. kuntzi Hoogstraal & Kohls, /. nipponensis Kitaoka & Saito, /. ovatus Neumann, /. persulcatus Schulze, /. simplex Neumann, /. vespertilionis Koch, Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides (Supino), and R. sanguineus (Latreille). An ad-ditional 13 tick species previously believed to occur in Taiwan are excluded from this list. Key Words: ticks, Ixodida, checklist, synonymy, Taiwan At least 1 1 papers and reports intended consigned to the junior synonymy. With the to serve as checklists of the ticks of Taiwan recent emergence of Lyme bon-eliosis and (formerly Formosa) and vicinity were pub-human babesiosis in Taiwan (Shih and lished or privately circulated during the 20'^ Chao 1998, 1999; Shih et al. 1997. 1998). century (Kishida 1935, Schulze 1935, Ogu-it is imperative that these lists be reconciled ra 1936, Sugimoto 1939, Elishewitz 1943, with current taxonomic literature and a\ail-Anonymous 1944. Luh and Woo 1950. Shi-able specimen records to produce a single mada et al. 1961, Maa and Kuo 1966, Tseng reliable roster of the Taiwan tick fauna. 1978, and Hoogstraal letter no. 251. 14 Between 1955 and 1978. teams from February 1984, Smithsonian Institution Ar-U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit Number chives). However, when these lists are crit-Two (NAMRU-2), Taipei, scoured Taiwan ically compared, it soon becomes apparent and its nearby islets (Lutao or Green Island. that there are numerous disagreements Lanyu or Orchid Island, and the Penghu ar-among them. Most are also rife with no-chipelago). collecting \crtebrales and in\er-menclatural or typographical errors or cite tebrates "to provide ilic biological knowl-species names that have long since been edge required for controllini: the animal and
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