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Coxixodes (Coxixodes) Schulze 1941

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  • 1. AgResearch Ltd., c / o Hopkirk Research Institute, Private Bag 11008, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand. acgandmm. heath @ actrix. co. nz; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0244 - 2219
  • 2. Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, 4101, Qld, Australia.
  • 3. US National Tick Collection, Institute for Coastal Sciences, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, 30460, USA. & Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, 30460, USA.
  • 4. Epidemiology, Parasites and Vectors, Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Research, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa. mansb @ arc. agric. za; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0177 - 0029 & The Department of Life and Consumer Sciences, University of South Africa, Florida 1709, South Africa.
  • 5. Centre for Bioinnovation, School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Qld 4556, Australia. rshao @ usc. edu. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1686 - 4968
  • 6. Department of Parasitology, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, 4072, Australia. Stephen Barker: s. barker @ uq. edu. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9431 - 8404

Description

Subgenus Coxixodes Schulze, 1941

Type species: Ixodes ornithorhynchi Lucas, 1846.

Type depository: The notes of Guglielmone et al. (2014) about the location of the types (syntypes) are correct: MNHN (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France).

Species included: Ixodes ornithorhynchi Lucas, 1846.

Subgeneric combination: Ixodes (Coxixodes) ornithorhynchi Lucas, 1846.

Diagnosis: With characteristics of its sole constituent species, Ixodes ornithorhynchi. Roberts (1960) has generous diagnoses of the female, nymph and larvae; these will not be repeated here.

Distribution: eastern Australia.

Remarks: Ixodes ornithorhynchi is the only tick that is known to parasitise Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799), the platypus, which occurs only in freshwater creeks and rivers in eastern Australia; this information together with the detailed diagnosis Roberts (1960) makes I. (Coxixodes) ornithorhynchi readily distinguishable from all other ticks.

Guglielmone et al. (2020) has a list of the descriptions and redescriptions of the sole species in this subgenus, I. ornithorhynchi. Coxixodes was described as a genus by Schulze (1941) with Ixodes ornithorhynchi as the type species. The decision by Schulze to describe a new genus was based mainly on the structure of Haller’s organ and characteristics of the coxae (refer to Guglielmone et al. 2017). The genus Coxixodes was then treated as valid by Zumpt (1951) but has been ignored by most of the other authors on this topic (Roberts 1960, 1970; Filippova 1977; Camicas et al. 1998, Guglielmone et al. 2017 among others): none of these authors synonymised Coxixodes Schulze, 1941 with another taxon although Roberts (1960, 1970) placed the sole species in Coxixodes, I. ornithorhynchi, in the genus Ixodes. Camicas et al. (1998), on the other hand, treated Coxixodes as a subgenus. We note that Roberts (1970) has a truncated version of the diagnosis of Roberts (1960) so readers may wish to use the diagnosis of Roberts (1960) in favour of Roberts (1970). Pagenstecher (1861), as explained in Neumann (1899), described the nymph (refer to Guglielmone et al. 2020). Roberts (1969) described the larvae. The male has not been described.

Notes

Published as part of Barker, Stephen C., Kelava, Samuael, Heath, Allen C. G., Seeman, Owen D., Apanaskevich, Dmitry A., Mans, Ben J., Shao, Renfu, Gofton, Alexander W., Teo, Ernest J. M., Byrne, Andrew F., Ito, Takuya, Tan, Craig J., Barker, Dayana & Nakao, Ryo, 2023, A new subgenus, Australixodes n. subgen. (Acari: Ixodidae), for the kiwi tick, Ixodes anatis Chilton, 1904, and validation of the subgenus Coxixodes Schulze, 1941 with a phylogeny of 16 of the 22 subgenera of Ixodes Latreille, 1795 from entire mitochondrial genome sequences, pp. 529-540 in Zootaxa 5325 (4) on page 536, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5325.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/8243707

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5325.4.4 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Collection code
MNHN
Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Coxixodes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ixodida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Schulze
Taxon rank
subGenus
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Coxixodes (Coxixodes) Schulze, 1941 sec. Barker, Kelava, Heath, Seeman, Apanaskevich, Mans, Shao, Gofton, Teo, Byrne, Ito, Tan, Barker & Nakao, 2023

References

  • Schulze, P. (1941) Das Geruchsorgan der Zecken. Untersuchungen uber die Abwandlungen eines Sinnesorgans und seine. Stammesgeschichtliche Bedeutung. Zeitschrift fur Morphologie und Okologie der Tiere, 37, 491 - 564. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00408327
  • Lucas, H. (1846) Sur quelques especes nouvelles d' Ixodes qui vivent parasites sur les serpens (Boa constricto r et Python sebae) et sur l'ornythorhynque (Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, Blum). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 4, 53 - 64.
  • Guglielmone, A. A., Robbins, R. G., Apanaskevich, D. A., Petney, T. N., Estrada-Pena, A. & Horak, I. G. (2014) The hard ticks of the world. Dordrecht Heidelberg Springer, New York, London, 738 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 94 - 007 - 7497 - 1
  • Roberts, F. H. S. (1960) A systematic study of the Australian species of the genus Ixodes (Acarina: Ixodidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 8, 392 - 485. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / ZO 9600392
  • Guglielmone, A. A., Petney, T. N. & Richard, G. R. (2020) Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019. Zootaxa, 4871 (1), 1 - 322. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4871.1.1
  • Guglielmone, A. A., Petney, T. N., Mastropaolo, M. & Robbins, R. G. (2017) Genera, subgenera, species and subspecies of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) described, named, renamed or given new rank by Paul Schulze (1887 - 1949) and their current status. Zootaxa, 4325 (1), 1 - 66. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4325.1.1
  • Zumpt, F. (1951) Phylogenie der Zecken und " Naturliches System ". Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde, 15, 87 - 101. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00261877
  • Roberts, F. H. S. (1970) Ticks of Australia. CSIRO, Melbourne, 267 pp.
  • Filippova, N. A. (1977) Ixodid ticks of the subfamily Ixodinae. Vol. 4. Nauka Publishing House, Leningrad, 396 pp.
  • Camicas, J. L., Hervy, J. P., Adam, F. & Morel, P. C. (1998) Les tiques du monde (Acarida, Ixodida). Nomenclature, stades decrits, hotes, repartition (especes decrites avant le 1 / 01 / 96). Orstom Editions, Paris, 233 pp.
  • Pagenstecher, H. A. (1861) Beitrage zur Anatomie der Milben. Heft II. Ixodes ricinus. W. Engelmann, Leipzig, 45 pp.
  • Neumann, L. G. (1899) Revision de la familles des Ixodes. Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 12, 107 - 294.