A New Stubby Species of Demodectic Mite (Acari: Demodicidae) From the Domestic Dog (Canidae)

A new species of Demodex was detected in the earwax of a dog with otitis externa in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, in July 2010. The opisthosoma length of the mite was slightly shorter than 1/2 of its body length, which was different from the other species in domestic dogs, D. canis and D. injai, but wa...

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Published inJournal of medical entomology Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 323 - 328
Main Authors Morita, Tatsushi, Ohmi, Aki, Kiwaki, Akihito, Ike, Kazunori, Nagata, Katsuyuki
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Entomological Society of America 28.02.2018
Oxford University Press
Subjects
Body length
Canidae
Canis familiaris
Demodex
Demodex canis
Demodex equi
Dogs
Domestic animals
Greece
Japan
Mites
morphology
MORPHOLOGY, SYSTEMATICS, EVOLUTION
New species
Otitis
Otitis externa
Physical characteristics
Greece
Japan
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Summary:A new species of Demodex was detected in the earwax of a dog with otitis externa in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, in July 2010. The opisthosoma length of the mite was slightly shorter than 1/2 of its body length, which was different from the other species in domestic dogs, D. canis and D. injai, but was similar to the form of mites termed “short-bodied species”, including D. cornei. However, the stubby external form was morphologically different from those of “short-bodied species”, excluding a case without a species description reported from Greece. Among known species, the mite was similar to D. equi and D. acutipes.
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ISSN:0022-2585
1938-2928
1938-2928
DOI:10.1093/jme/tjx226