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Ixodes vanidicus Schulze 1943

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Description

244. Ixodes vanidicus Schulze, 1943b.

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Carnivora: Herpestidae; adults alone have been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Carnivora: Canidae, Felidae and Viverridae, and Macroscelidea: Macroscelididae. Ixodes vanidicus is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Schulze (1943b)

F: Schulze (1943b)

N: Schulze (1943b)

L: Schulze (1943b)

Redescriptions

M: Arthur (1965), Keirans et al. (1982), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Arthur (1965), Keirans et al. (1982), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

N: Arthur (1965)

L: Arthur (1965), Sénevet and Ripert (1967a)

Note: see Ixodes oldi for a discussion of the problems involved in morphologically identifying the species constituting the oldi group, to which Ixodes vanidicus belongs.

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

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URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4FFA2FF89FF07FE8167B5C852

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/C04787D4FFA2FF89FF07FE8167B5C852 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/179989902 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/7890/taxon/C04787D4FFA2FF89FF07FE8167B5C852.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Ixodes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ixodida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Schulze
Species
vanidicus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ixodes vanidicus Schulze, 1943 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020

References

  • Schulze, P. (1943 b) Uber zwei bemerkenswerte afrikanische Schwesterarten von Ixodes: I. rasus Neum. und vanidicus n. sp. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 142, 121 - 141.
  • Keirans, J. E., Clifford, C. M. & Walker, J. B. (1982) The Ixodes (Afroixodes) oldi group (Acari: Ixodidae) from sub-Saharan Africa with descriptions of five new species. Journal of Medical Entomology, 19, 309 - 329. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 19.3.309
  • Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.
  • Senevet, G. & Ripert, C. (1967 a) Les larves des especes du genre Ixodes. Essai de revue d'ensemble. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 42, 79 - 121. https: // doi. org / 10.1051 / parasite / 1967421079