''Amblyomma maculatum'' (Gulf Coast tick) is a species of
tick in the genus ''
Amblyomma''. Immatures usually infest small mammals and birds that dwell on the ground;
cotton rats may be particularly favored hosts. Some recorded hosts include:
*''
Geothlypis trichas''
[
*'' Cardinalis cardinalis''][Wilson and Durden, 2003, table 1]
*''Passerina ciris
The painted bunting (''Passerina ciris'') is a species of bird in the cardinal family, Cardinalidae. It is native to North America. The bright plumage of the male only comes in the second year of life; in the first year they can only be distingui ...
''[
*'' Sialia sialis''][
*'' Thryothorus ludovicianus''][
*'' Troglodytes aedon''][
*'' Zonotrichia albicollis''][
* Dog (''Canis lupus familiaris'')][
*'' Dama dama''][Wilson and Durden, 2003, table 5]
* Human (''Homo sapiens'')[Wilson and Durden, 2003, table 2]
*Eastern woodrat
The eastern woodrat (''Neotoma floridana''), also known as the Florida woodrat or bush rat, is a pack rat native to the central and Eastern United States. It constructs large dens that may serve as nests for many generations and stores food in o ...
(''Neotoma floridana'')
*''Odocoileus virginianus
The white-tailed deer (''Odocoileus virginianus''), also known as the whitetail or Virginia deer, is a medium-sized deer native to North America, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia. It has also been introduced t ...
''[
*]Marsh rice rat
The marsh rice rat (''Oryzomys palustris'') is a semiaquatic North American rodent in the family Cricetidae. It usually occurs in wetland habitats, such as swamps and salt marshes. It is found mostly in the eastern and southern United States, fr ...
(''Oryzomys palustris'')
* Cotton mouse (''Peromyscus gossypinus'')
* Hispid cotton rat (''Sigmodon hispidus'')[Clark et al., 2001, table IV]
* Pig (''Sus scrofa'')[
*'' Sylvilagus palustris''][Wilson and Durden, 2003, table 4]
In 2013, the infectious agent of American tick bite fever
''Rickettsia parkeri'' (abbreviated ''R. parkeri'') is a gram-negative intracellular bacterium. The organism is found in the Western Hemisphere and is transmitted via the bite of hard ticks of the genus ''Amblyomma''. ''R. parkeri'' causes mild ...
, '' Rickettsia parkeri'' was detected in a female ''A. maculatum'' collected at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, near Smyrna, Delaware, providing the first evidence of association of this pathogen of humans with this species of tick in the state.[David A. Florin, Ju Jiang, Richard G. Robbins & Allen L. Richards. 2013. Infection of the Gulf Coast tick, ''Amblyomma maculatum'' (Acari: Ixodidae), with ''Rickettsia parkeri'': first report from the State of Delaware. ''Systematic & Applied Acarology'' 18(1): 27–29; http://www.acarology.org/saas/saa/saa18/2013-18-027-029f.pdf.]
See also
*List of parasites of the marsh rice rat
A variety of parasites have been recorded from the marsh rice rat (''Oryzomys palustris''), a semiaquatic rodent found in the eastern and southern United States, north to New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeaste ...
* List of parasites of humans
References
Literature cited
*Clark, K.L., Oliver, J.H., Jr., Grego, J.M., James, A.M., Durden, L.A. and Banks, C.W. 2001. Host associations of ticks parasitizing rodents at ''Borrelia burgdorferi'' enzootic sites in South Carolina. Journal of Parasitology 87(6):1379–1386.
*Wilson, N. and Durden, L.A. 2003
Ectoparasites of terrestrial vertebrates inhabiting the Georgia Barrier Islands, USA: an inventory and preliminary biogeographical analysis
(subscription required). Journal of Biogeography 30(8):1207–1220.
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Amblyomma
Animals described in 1844
Arachnids of North America