Ixodes spinipalpis Hadwen and Nuttall, 1916 in Nuttall (1916)

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 : 68

217. Ixodes spinipalpis Hadwen and Nuttall, 1916 in Nuttall (1916) .

A Nearctic species with a few records from the Neotropical Zoogeographic Region whose adults, larvae and nymphs are usually found on Rodentia : Cricetidae ; adult ticks are also common on Lagomorpha : Leporidae . All parasitic stages have been found on Rodentia : Sciuridae , and Lagomorpha : Leporidae and Ochotonidae . Adults and nymphs have been collected from Carnivora : Procyonidae , while adults alone have been taken from Carnivora : Canidae ; immature stages have been collected from Rodentia : Heteromyidae , Soricomorpha : Soricidae , Passeriformes (several families), and Galliformes : Odontophoridae ( Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Scott et al. 2018). Ixodes spinipalpis is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Bishopp (1912), under the name Ixodes diversifossus , as explained in Keirans and Clifford (1978)

F: Bishopp (1912), under the name Ixodes diversifossus , as explained in Keirans and Clifford (1978)

N: Hadwen and Nuttall (1916) in Nuttall (1916), under the name Ixodes dentatus spinipalpis , and given its current status in Hubbard (1941)

L: Hadwen and Nuttall (1916) in Nuttall (1916), under the name Ixodes dentatus spinipalpis

Redescriptions

M: Cooley (1944b) under the name Ixodes neotomae , a synonym of Ixodes spinipalpis, Cooley and Kohls (1945) , Gregson (1956), Keirans and Clifford (1978), Furman and Loomis (1984), Lindquist et al. (2016)

F: Hadwen and Nuttall (1916) in Nuttall (1916), under the name Ixodes dentatus spinipalpis, Cooley (1944b) under the name Ixodes neotomae, Cooley and Kohls (1945) , Gregson (1956), Keirans and Clifford (1978), Furman and Loomis (1984), Lindquist et al. (2016)

N: Cooley and Kohls (1945), Gregson (1956), Furman and Loomis (1984), Durden and Keirans (1996), Lindquist et al. (2016)

L: Allred et al. (1960), Sénevet and Ripert (1967a), Furman and Loomis (1984), Webb et al. (1990), Kleinjan and Lane (2008), Coley (2015), Lindquist et al. (2016)

Note: see Ixodes diversifossus for additional data on that species’ confusion with Ixodes spinipalpis . There are redescriptions of Ixodes spinipalpis under the name Ixodes neotomae that, with one exception, are not included in the lists above.