&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ornithodoros sawaii &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kitaoka and Suzuki&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;(Acari: Ixodida: Argasidae) collected from nest soil and litter of &lt;em&gt;Synthliboramphus&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;antiquus&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hydrobates&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;monorhis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;on Chilbal &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sland, southwestern Jeollanam Province, Republic of Korea &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Heung-Chul Kim,Sung-Tae Chong,Richard George Robbins,Won-Ja Lee,Seok-Min Yun,Chang-Uk Park,Jong-Hyun Park,Terry A Klein,Young-Soo Kwon,In-Yong Lee

doi:10.11158/saa.20.7.1

Abstract

The 65 th Medical Brigade and Public Health Command Region-Pacific (Korea), in collaboration with the Migratory Birds Center, National Park Research Institute, conducted a migratory bird tick-borne disease surveillance program on Chilbal Island, a small, remote, uninhabited island in southwestern Jeollanam Province, Republic of Korea (ROK), on 1 and 31 May and 15 September 2014. Ticks were collected from nesting soil and litter of the Ancient Murrelet, Synthliboramphus antiquus , and Swinhoe’s Storm Petrel, Hydrobates monorhis , using Tullgren funnels. A total of 12 Ornithodoros sawaii (2 females, 4 males, and 6 nymphs) were collected from 3/36 (8.3%) S. antiquus and 6/20 (30.0%) H. monorhis nest sites. Ticks were identified morphologically and species determination was confirmed using polymerase chain reaction techniques. This is the first report of the genus O rnithodoros and species O. sawaii from the ROK.

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