Survey for ticks on feral swine within a cattle fever tick-infested landscape in Texas, U.S.A.

We collected ticks from feral swine, Sus scrofa L., during 1–3 September 2015, in pastures known to be infested by southern cattle ticks, Rhipicephalus ( Boophilus ) microplus (Canestrini), at the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in Cameron County, Texas, U.S.A. All 81 examined feral swine were infested by ticks, but none was infested by R. microplus . Tick species collected were Amblyomma maculatum Koch , Amblyomma mixtum Koch , Amblyomma tenellum Koch , Dermacentor halli McIntosh, and Dermaentor variabilis (Say) . This is the first formal report of A. tenellum infesting feral swine.