TICKS AND FLEAS OF SHREWS IN APPALACHIAN GEORGIA AND NORTH-CAROLINA

Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) and fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) were recover ed from 8 smoky shrews, Sorex fumeus Miller, and 9 northern short-tail ed shrews, Blarina brevicauda (Say), trapped at elevations of 720-1,31 0 m in Macon and Jackson counties in western North Carolina and Union County in northern Georgia from April 1994 to August 1995. The ticks I xodes angustus Neumann and Ixodes woodi Bishopp, and the flea Corrodop sylla curvata (Rothschild), were recovered from smoky shrews. The same 2 tick species, in addition to the fleas, Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes Baker and Doratopsylla blarinae Fox, were recovered from northern sho rt-tailed shrews. New state records for I. angustus from Georgia and I . woodi from North Carolina are established.