131. Ixodes luciae Sénevet, 1940 .

A Neotropical species whose adults are usually found on Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae; common hosts for larvae and nymphs are Didelphidae, and Rodentia: Cricetidae . Adults alone have been collected from Carnivora: Canidae, and Rodentia: Cuniculidae; nymphs have been recovered from Artiodactyla: Cervidae, while larvae have been taken from Rodentia: Echimyidae, and Soricomorpha: Soricidae . There are no bona fide records of Ixodes luciae causing human parasitism.

M: Cooley and Kohls (1945)

F: Nuttall (1910), under the name Ixodes loricatus spinosus; see note below

N: Onofrio et al. (2010)

L: Onofrio et al. (2010)

Redescriptions

M: Floch and Fauran (1958), Aragão and Fonseca (1961a), Onofrio et al. (2006 a, 2009, 2010), Nava et al. (2017), Bermúdez et al. (2018)

F: Sénevet (1940), Cooley and Kohls (1945), Floch and Fauran (1958), Aragão and Fonseca (1961a), Onofrio et al. (2006 a, 2009, 2010), Nava et al. (2017), Bermúdez et al. (2018)

N: Nava et al. (2017)

L: none

Note: the name Ixodes luciae is inferred as a new name for Ixodes loricatus spinosus, preoccupied by Ixodes spinosus in Keirans and Hillyard (2001) . However, it seems that Sénevet (1940) overlooked the description of the female of Ixodes loricatus spinosus in Nuttall (1910) when describing Ixodes luciae, because Nuttall’s study is ignored in Sénevet’s paper. Ixodes loricatus spinosus is a synonym of Ixodes luciae, and is replaced by Ixodes loricatus vogelsangi in Santos Dias (1954c), but the name Ixodes luciae nonetheless prevails.