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Ixodes lunatus Neumann 1907

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Description

132. Ixodes lunatus Neumann, 1907d.

An Afrotropical species whose females are usually found on Afrosoricida: Tenrecidae, but they have also been recovered from Rodentia: Nesomyidae. There are no records of Ixodes lunatus causing human parasitism.

M: unknown

F: Neumann (1907d)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Arthur (1957b, 1965), Uilenberg et al. (1979)

Note: see Ixodes colasbelcouri for its confusion with Ixodes lunatus.

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 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340

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URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4FFC2FFE9FF07FE5966D8C81A

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4423340 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/3C7EFFACFFE9FFC2FF90FFA76543CB47 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/C04787D4FFC2FFE9FF07FE5966D8C81A (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/179989891 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/7890/taxon/C04787D4FFC2FFE9FF07FE5966D8C81A.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Ixodes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ixodida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Neumann
Species
lunatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ixodes lunatus Neumann, 1907 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020

References

  • Neumann, L. G., (1907 d) Quatre especes nouvelles d'ixodides. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 29, 88 - 100.
  • Nuttall, G. H. F. & Warburton, C. (1911) Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part II. The Ixodidae. Section II. Genus I. Ixodes Latreille 1795. Cambridge University Press, London, pp. 133 - 293. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 24075
  • Arthur, D. R. (1957 b) Re-description of Ixodes lunatus Neumann, 1907 and of a new species confused therewith, from Madagascar. Journal of Parasitology, 43, 474 - 483. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3274679
  • Uilenberg, G., Hoogstraal. H. & Klein, J. M. (1979) Les tiques (Ixodoidea) de Madagascar et leur role vecteur. Archives de l'Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Numero Special, 153 pp.