102. Ixodes holocyclus Neumann, 1899 .

An Australasian species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Mammalia (several orders) and Passeriformes: Cracticidae; adults alone have been collected from Passeriformes: Corvidae, Casuariiformes: Casusariidae, and Psittaciformes: Psittacidae; immature stages have been recovered from Cuculiformes: Cuculidae, and Passeriformes: Acanthizidae, Melephagidae and Ptilonorhynchidae (Chalada et al. 2018, Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Loh et al. 2018). Ixodes holocyclus is a frequent parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1899)

F: Neumann (1899)

N: Neumann (1899)

L: Clunies Ross (1924)

Redescriptions

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Clunies Ross (1924), Roberts (1960, 1970), Jackson et al. (2002), Barker and Walker (2014), Barker et al. (2014)

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Clunies Ross (1924), Roberts (1960, 1970), Jackson et al. (2002), Barker and Walker (2014), Barker et al. (2014), Kwak (2017)

N: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Clunies Ross (1924), Roberts (1960, 1970), Jackson et al. (2002)

L: Sénevet and Ripert (1967a), Roberts (1960, 1969), Kemp (1980), Jackson et al. (2002)

Note: there are a number of redescriptions of alleged Ixodes holocyclus collected outside Australia, e.g., Sharif (1928) and Krijgsman and Ponto (1932), but these are probably based on misidentifications.