246. Ixodes ventalloi Gill Collado, 1936 .

A Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Lagomorpha: Leporidae, Carnivora: Canidae and Mustelidae, and Rodentia: Gliridae and Muridae; adults and nymphs have been collected from Carnivora: Felidae, Erinaceomorpha: Erinaceidae, Rodentia: Sciuridae, Passeriformes: Turdidae, and Strigiformes: Strigidae and Tytonidae; adults alone have been recovered from Carnivora: Herpestidae and Viverridae, Galliformes: Phasianidae, Gruiformes: Rallidae, and Passeriformes: Corvidae; immature stages have been found on Soricomorpha: Soricidae, and Squamata: Agamidae, Lacertidae and Scincidae; unknown stages have been collected from Rodentia: Hystricidae (Mori et al. 2015, Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Cull et al. 2018, Santos & Santos-Silva 2018). Ixodes ventalloi is a rare parasite of humans.

M: Pérez-Eid (2007)

F: Gil Collado (1936)

N: Morel and Pérez (1977b)

L: Morel and Pérez (1977a)

Redescriptions

M: Estrada-Peña et al. (2017, 2018), Latrofa et al. (2017)

F: Gilot and Pérez (1978), Pérez-Eid (2007), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017, 2018), Latrofa et al. (2017)

N: Manilla and Iori (1993), Pérez-Eid (2007), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017, 2018)

L: Manilla and Iori (1992), Pérez-Eid (2007), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017, 2018)

Note: see Ixodes festai for its confusion with Ixodes ventalloi by several authors, and Ixodes bivari for its proposed synonymy with Ixodes ventalloi .