Ixodes zairensis Keirans, Clifford and Walker, 1982

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, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 79

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4582978
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4-FFA7-FF8C-FF07-FD5D667DCF3A
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Ixodes zairensis Keirans, Clifford and Walker, 1982
status

Treatment

255. Ixodes zairensis Keirans, Clifford and Walker, 1982 View in CoL .

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.