Inventario de garrapatas en la Reserva de Biosfera del Noroeste del Perú

Abstract

Ticks primarily affect livestock and have the potential to transmit disease. The objective of the research was to record the georeferencing, distribution and identification of the species present in three Protected Natural Areas (ANP) that are part of the Biosphere Reserve of Northwest Peru (RBNO). The collection was carried out in five representative places of each ANP, due to the difficulty of finding fauna within the ANP, a convenience sampling was used for animals, and a random sampling was used for plants, using transects through the places where domestic animals’ transit. and wild and ranchers. The collected specimens were labeled to have distribution and identification in each of the sampled places. Dale's keys were used for genus level identification and Álvarez's keys were used for preliminary identification of species. Four specimens were collected in the Cerros de Amotape National Park, 55 in the Angolo Hunting Reserve and 271 in the Tumbes National Reserve. Seven species were recorded: Amblyoma cajennense, A. dissimile, A. maculatum and A. testudinis; Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus and R. sanguineus and an unidentified species of the genus Haemaphysalis.