Alectorobius kelleyi

Alectorobius kelleyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Ixodida
Family: Argasidae
Genus: Alectorobius
Species:
A. kelleyi
Binomial name
Alectorobius kelleyi
Cooley & Kohls, 1941[1]

Alectorobius kelleyi is an argasid tick parasite of bats.[2]

The species is found widely throughout North America, including the United States, Costa Rica, Mexico and Cuba.[3] It primarily feeds on Eptesicus fuscus, but is also known to rarely bite humans and domestic dogs.[4][5]

A. kelleyi are often vectors for Rickettsia bacteria species from the spotted fever group, and relapsing fever Borrelia spirochetes.[3][6] The pathogenicity of these bacteria to humans and bats is unknown, but there is correlative evidence that bites from the species may cause tick-borne disease.[7][8]

The species is named for Thomas F. Kelley Jr. who discovered the tick while studying at UC Berkeley in 1941.[9]

References

  1. ^ Robert Allen Cooley & Glen Milton Kohls (1941). "Three new species of Ornithodoros". Public Health Reports. 56: 587–594.
  2. ^ Mans, Ben J.; Featherston, Jonathan; Kvas, Marija; Pillay, Kerry-Anne; de Klerk, Daniel G.; Pienaar, Ronel; de Castro, Minique H.; Schwan, Tom G.; Lopez, Job E.; Teel, Pete; Pérez de León, Adalberto A.; Sonenshine, Daniel E.; Egekwu, Noble I.; Bakkes, Deon K.; Heyne, Heloise (2019-01-01). "Argasid and ixodid systematics: Implications for soft tick evolution and systematics, with a new argasid species list". Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 10 (1): 219–240. doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.09.010. ISSN 1877-959X.
  3. ^ a b Occi, James L.; Price, Dana C.; Hall, MacKenzie; Campbell, Victoria; Stronsick, Stephanie; Sullivan, Cheryl F.; Pesapane, Risa; Gonzalez, Julia; Toledo, Alvaro; Fonseca, Dina M. (2023-05-01). "Rickettsia and relapsing fever Borrelia in Alectorobius kelleyi (Ixodida: Argasidae) from peri domestic bats in the northeastern United States". Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 14 (3) 102157. doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2023.102157. ISSN 1877-959X.
  4. ^ Gill, J. S.; Rowley, W. A.; Bush, P. J.; Viner, J. P.; Gilchrist, M. J. R. (2004-11-01). "Detection of Human Blood in the Bat Tick Carios (Ornithodoros) kelleyi (Acari: Argasidae) in Iowa". Journal of Medical Entomology. 41 (6): 1179–1181. doi:10.1603/0022-2585-41.6.1179.
  5. ^ Sullivan, Cheryl Frank; Occi, James L; Brennan, Reilly N; Robbins, Richard G; Skinner, Margaret; Bennett, Alyssa B; Parker, Bruce L; Fonseca, Dina M (2022-03-16). Foley, Janet (ed.). "First Report of the Bat Tick Carios kelleyi (Acari: Ixodida: Argasidae) From Vermont, United States". Journal of Medical Entomology. 59 (2): 784–787. doi:10.1093/jme/tjab232. ISSN 0022-2585.
  6. ^ Will K. Reeves; Daniel G. Streicker; Amanda D. Loftis & Gregory A. Dasch (2006). "Serologic survey of Eptesicus fuscus from Georgia, U.S.A. for Rickettsia and Borrelia and laboratory transmission of a Rickettsia by bat ticks" (PDF). Journal of Vector Ecology. 31 (2): 386–389. doi:10.3376/1081-1710(2006)31[386:SSOEFF]2.0.CO;2. PMID 17249357. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
  7. ^ Kingry, Luke C; Anacker, Melissa; Pritt, Bobbi; Bjork, Jenna; Respicio-Kingry, Laurel; Liu, Gongping; Sheldon, Sarah; Boxrud, David; Strain, Anna; Oatman, Stephanie; Berry, Jon; Sloan, Lynne; Mead, Paul; Neitzel, David; Kugeler, Kiersten J (2018-06-01). "Surveillance for and Discovery of Borrelia Species in US Patients Suspected of Tickborne Illness". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 66 (12): 1864–1871. doi:10.1093/cid/cix1107. ISSN 1058-4838. PMC 5985202. PMID 29272385.
  8. ^ Muñoz-Leal, Sebastián; Marcili, Arlei; Fuentes-Castillo, Danny; Ayala, Mauricio; Labruna, Marcelo B. (2019-07-01). "A relapsing fever Borrelia and spotted fever Rickettsia in ticks from an Andean valley, central Chile". Experimental and Applied Acarology. 78 (3): 403–420. doi:10.1007/s10493-019-00389-x. ISSN 1572-9702.
  9. ^ Robert Allen Cooley & Glen Milton Kohls (1944). The Argasidae of North America, Central America and Cuba. American Midland Naturalist Monographs. Vol. 1. University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 113–117.
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