TY  - JOUR
AU  - Milde, Mike
AU  - Martins, Thiago Fernandes
AU  - Harms, Danilo
AU  - Hammel, Joerg
AU  - Dunlop, Jason
AU  - Kotthoff, Ulrich
AU  - Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia
TI  - A new species of the Recent genus Amblyomma (Parasitiformes: Ixodidae) discovered in Dominican amber
JO  - Palaeoentomology
VL  - 8
IS  - 6
SN  - 2624-2826
CY  - Auckland
PB  - Magnolia Press
M1  - PUBDB-2025-05080
SP  - 618 - 629
PY  - 2025
N1  - Project ID: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) HA 8785/5-1 and KO 3944/10-1.  Waiting for fulltext 
AB  - Two new fossil hard ticks (Arachnida: Ixodida: Ixodidae) from Dominican amber (Miocene, probably Burdigalian, ca. 16 Ma) are described. An almost fully engorged female and a partly engorged larva were documented by combining light microscopy with high-resolution µCT-scans at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and 3D modelling of the data. Images of the fossils created from these 3D models facilitated comparisons with living ticks and the new material can be assigned to the Recent genus Amblyomma C.L. Koch, 1844 as Amblyomma arawakan Chitimia-Dobler </td><td width="150">
AB  -  Martins sp. nov. The new amber species appears to be most closely related to the extant New World tick Amblyomma auricularium Conil, 1878. Possible hosts for the fossils are discussed within the wider context of their historical biogeography. 
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
DO  - DOI:10.11646/palaeoentomology.8.6.3
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/641503
ER  -