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Ixodes zairensis Keirans, Clifford and Walker 1982
Description
255. Ixodes zairensis Keirans, Clifford and Walker, 1982.
An Afrotropical species known only to parasitize Soricomorpha: Soricidae.
M: unknown
F: Keirans et al. (1982)
N: Keirans et al. (1982)
L: unknown
Redescriptions
F: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)
N: none
Note: see Ixodes oldi for a discussion of the problems involved in morphologically identifying the species constituting the Ixodes oldi group, to which Ixodes zairensis 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 79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Ixodes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ixodida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Keirans, Clifford and Walker
- Species
- zairensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ixodes zairensis Keirans, 1982 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020
References
- 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.