TICK LOCALITY AND HOST RECORDS FROM LONG ISLAND AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK STATE 1 Newell E. Good-Arbovirus surveys conducted during 1971 by the Bureau of Epi-demiology, New York State Department of Health included the col-lection of large numbers of certain groups of blood sucking arthropods to be tested for natural infection with arboviruses. Ticks were col-lected by dragging and by examination of horses, dogs, trapped wild mammals, and netted birds. All specimens were identified before pooling for tests, and representative samples of all lots as well as all unusual or hard to determine specimens were kept for positive identi-fication. Some ticks also were collected or acquired from other sources, e. g. from animals found dead along highways and specimens sent to us for identification. Altogether we identified a total of more than 4,000 ticks of all stages comprising eight species in five genera from the area during 1971. This included Amblyomma americanum (Linn.); Dermacentor variabilis (Say); Haemaphysalis leporis-palustrls Packard; Ixodes dentatus Marx; Ixodes muris Bishopp and Smith; Ixodes scapularis Say; Ixodes texanns Banks; and Rhipiceph-alus sanguineus Latreille. The addition of I. texanus and confirma-tion of the current presence of A. americanum in New York bring the State list of ticks to 16 species in six genera. ( Jamback, 1969). A major portion of the tick collections were made-at a large guest ranch near Montauk Point, Suffolk County, New York at the south-eastern tip of Long Island, between May 5 and October 20, 1971. The most significant development at this location was the finding of the Lone Star tick, Ambhjomma americanum, a southern species which is 'Accepted for publication: January 24, 1972 [3.0167]. -Bureau of Epidemiology, New York State Department of Health, White Plains, NY 10603. Ent. News, 83: 165-168, 1972 165
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