244. Ixodes vanidicus Schulze, 1943b .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Carnivora: Herpestidae; adults alone have been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Carnivora: Canidae, Felidae and Viverridae, and Macroscelidea: Macroscelididae . Ixodes vanidicus is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Schulze (1943b)

F: Schulze (1943b)

N: Schulze (1943b)

L: Schulze (1943b)

Redescriptions

M: Arthur (1965), Keirans et al. (1982), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Arthur (1965), Keirans et al. (1982), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

N: Arthur (1965)

L: Arthur (1965), Sénevet and Ripert (1967a)

Note: see Ixodes oldi for a discussion of the problems involved in morphologically identifying the species constituting the oldi group, to which Ixodes vanidicus belongs.