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Ixodes columnae Takada and Fujita 1992

Description

48. Ixodes columnae Takada and Fujita, 1992.

A Palearctic species (see note below), all of whose known parasitic stages have been found on Rodentia: Sciuridae; immature stages have been collected from Rodentia: Cricetidae and Muridae, Galliformes: Phasianidae, Passeriformes (several families), and Piciformes: Picidae. Ixodes columnae is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: unknown

F: Takada and Fujita (1992)

N: Takada and Fujita (1978), under the provisional name Ixodes sp. N 2, as explained in Takada and Fujita (1992) L: Takada and Fujita (1978), under the provisional name Ixodes sp. L1, as explained in Takada and Fujita (1992) Redescriptions

F: none

N: Takada and Fujita (1992), Fujita and Takada (2007)

L: Takada and Fujita (1992), Fujita and Takada (2007)

Note: Guglielmone and Robbins (2018) state that if Taiwanese records in Kuo et al. (2017) are confirmed, Ixodes columnae will be an Oriental and Palearctic species.

Notes

Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, pp. 1-322 in Zootaxa 4871 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Ixodes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ixodida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Takada and Fujita
Species
columnae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ixodes columnae and, 1992 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020

References

  • Takada, N. & Fujita, H. (1992) Description of Ixodes columnae sp. nov., associated with a nymphal sp. N 2 and a larval sp. L 1 (Acarina: Ixodidae). Journal of the Acarological Society of Japan, 1, 37 - 44. https: // doi. org / 10.2300 / acari. 1.37
  • Takada, N. & Fujita, H. (1978) Studies on ixodid fauna in the northern part of Honshu, Japan 4. An inclusive survey of the tick fauna during the past ten years. Annual Report of Ohara General Hospital, 21, 19 - 34. [in Japanese; the information from this article was obtained with the help of Professor Takeo Yamauchi]
  • Fujita, H. & Takada, N. (2007) Identification of immature ticks in Japan. In: Organization Committee of SADI (Ed.), Acari and Emerging / Reemerging Diseases. Kyoiku Kyokai Publishing Co, Tokyo, pp. 53 - 68. [in Japanese]
  • Guglielmone, A. A. & Robbins, R. G. (2018) Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) parasitizing humans. A global overview. Springer, Cham, 314 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 95552 - 0
  • Kuo, C. C., Lin, Y. F., Yao, C. T., Shih, H. C., Chung, L. H., Liao, H. C., Hsu, Y. C. & Wang, H. C. (2017) Tick-borne pathogens in ticks collected from birds in Taiwan. Parasites & Vectors, 10 (article 587), 1 - 1. https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / s 13071 - 017 - 2535 - 4