Ixodes daveyi Nuttall, 1913

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 14

66. Ixodes daveyi Nuttall, 1913 .

Afrotropical: 1) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2) Ethiopia, 3) Kenya, 4) Malawi, 5) Uganda; 6) Zimbabwe ( Walker 1974, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Norval et al. 1987, Kolonin 2009).

The male of Ixodes daveyi was described by Keirans et al. (1972), but Morel (1976) and others doubted that the male in Keirans et al. (1972) belongs to this species. Guglielmone et al. (2014, 2015) treated the male of Ixodes daveyi described by Keirans et al. (1972) as provisionally valid.

Theiler (1962) and Elbl & Anastos (1966b) included South Africa within the geographic distribution of Ixodes daveyi , but Walker (1991) treated the record of Ixodes daveyi from South Africa in Arthur (1965) as unconfirmed, while ignoring the reference to this species in Theiler (1962). The presence of Ixodes daveyi in South Africa was also disputed by Horak et al. (2018), and we exclude South Africa from the range of this species.