Ixodes nipponensis Kitaoka & Saito, 1967

Fedorov, Denis & Hornok, Sándor, 2024, Checklist of hosts, illustrated geographical range, and ecology of tick species from the genus Ixodes (Acari, Ixodidae) in Russia and other post-Soviet countries, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 255-343 : 255-343

Ixodes nipponensis Kitaoka & Saito, 1967

Recorded hosts.

Mammalia: Apodemus agrarius (striped field mouse), Craseomys rufocanus (grey red-backed vole), Microtus fortis (Büchner) (reed vole), Myodes rutilus (northern red-backed vole) ( Filippova 1977).

Recorded locations

(Fig. 11 ). Russia: Primorsky Krai – the Lake Khasan, the Poyma River, the Partizansky District, outskirts of urban localities Posyet, Kraskino, Slavyanka and cities Vladivostok and Nakhodka, near the village Rechitsa ( Filippova 1969; Filippova and Belyaev 1970; Allenov et al. 2015).

Ecology and other information.

Ixodes nipponensis is a tick species found in Russia in the south and south-west of the Primorsky Krai and also in the Korean peninsula and Japan ( Filippova 1977). In Russia it was reported mainly from murine rodents, although in the Republic of Korea it was also observed on lizards ( Kim et al. 2018) and cattle, goats, dogs, horses, and birds in Japan ( Kitaoka and Saito 1967; Yamaguti et al. 1971).

Multiple cases of parasitism on humans have been recorded ( Nakatsukase and Hatsushika 1985; Paik et al. 1989; Cho et al. 1995; Chu et al. 1997; Ryu et al. 1998; Ko et al. 2002).

Figures

Figure 11. Map of Russia and neighboring countries showing the locations where Ixodes nipponensis was reported.