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First record of concinna Koch, 1844 (: ) in Bosnia and Herzegovina

DEJAN DMITROVI Ć, BRANKA BILBIJA, MILICA LUKA Č and DRAGANA ŠNJEGOTA

Faculty of Sciences, University of Banja Luka, Mladena Stojanovi ća 2, 78 000 Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, E-mail: [email protected]

Received 21 July 2014 │ Accepted 28 July 2014 │ Published online 30 July 2014.

The species of genera Ixodes , Haemaphysalis , Rhipicephalus , Dermacentor and Hyalomma present the diversity of Ixodid (Ixodidae) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Omeragi ć 2011). For the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina was reported three species of the genus Haemaphysalis : H. punctata , H. cholodkovskyi and H. inermis (Čankovi ć & Rozman 1980; Zuko 2013). However, the name H. cholodkovskyi (as H. cholodkowski in Čankovi ć & Rozman 1980 and H. cholodkowskyi /H. cholodokowskyi in Zuko 2013) has disappeared from modern taxonomic literature and has been considered as a synonym of H. sulcata (Guglielmone et al . 2014).

Figure 1 . Adult male of H. concinna with dorsal side = A and ventral side = B found in the area of Barda ča wetland ecosystem. Photographs by M. Luka č & D. Dmitrovi ć.

A single male of Haemaphysalis concinna Koch, 1844 was found in the area of Barda ča wetland ecosystem (NW Bosnia and Herzegovina) which is known as considerable bird habitat (Obratil 1980/81). This finding represents the first record of this species in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The specimen was collected from herbaceous vegetation in the morning hours on June 15, 2014 by flagging with white flannel cloth (1x1 m) between ponds Necik and Rakitovac (45°06.789’N, 17 °26.776’E), placed in labeled plastic tube with original cap and fixed in 96% ethanol. The determination is carried out in the laboratory of Faculty of Sciences, University of Banja Luka, using stereomicroscope Leica EZ4D and detailed identification keys (Babos 1964; Nosek et al . 1972). Using the above mentioned stereomicroscope, the male specimen was

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FIRST RECORD OF HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA photographed with the dorsal and ventral side (Fig. 1), preserved in 96% ethanol and kept in the formed ticks collection. The distribution of H. concinna includes the Palearctic and Oriental Zoogeographic Regions (Guglielmone et al . 2014) and finding of this species in Bosnia and Herzegovina is expected. This species has been previously recorded in neighboring countries: Croatia (Kr čmar 2012) and Serbia (Juriši ć et al . 2012; Mihaljica et al . 2012). Although investigations of Ixodid ticks in the area of Barda ča were conducted since 2013 (Dmitrovi ć et al . 2013), until now there was not information about presence of this species in studied area. It is possible that the male of H. concinna appeared in the area of Barda ča by infested migratory bird, whereas larvae and nymphs of this species are ectoparasites of birds (Nosek 1971). The transport of Ixodid ticks by migratory birds is known in recent literature data (Laakkonen et al . 2009; Hasle et al . 2009).

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank MSc Goran Šukalo for help in the field work, Prof. Vesna Milankov for providing relevant literature, PhD Siniša Škondri ć for constructive comments that helped in improving an earlier version of our manuscript and MSc Marinko Veki ć for technical processing of photographs.

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