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Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, 1930 (Figs. 70–72)

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Ixodes persulcatus, the taiga tick, is a three-host tick. Under laboratory conditions (20 °C, 12 h light/dark cycle) the life-cycle takes about 250 days (Konnai et al. in Jpn J Vet Res 55:85–92, 2008). It is a generalist tick, feeding on a variety of different animal species, ranging from reptiles to birds to mammals. The immature developmental stages prefer to feed on small and medium-sized mammals and birds, while the females parasitize large mammals, such as deer, cattle, sheep or hares (Gray in Exp Appl Acarol 22:249–258, 1998).

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Pfäffle, M.P., Petney, T.N., Jaenson, T.G.T. (2017). Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, 1930 (Figs. 70–72). In: Estrada-Peña, A., Mihalca, A., Petney, T. (eds) Ticks of Europe and North Africa. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63760-0_39

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