118. Ixodes kopsteini (Oudemans, 1926) .

An Afrotropical, Australasian and Oriental species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Chiroptera: Molossidae, Pteropodidae and Vespertilionidae . There are no records of Ixodes kopsteini causing human parasitism.

M: Oudemans (1925), under the name Eschatocephalus ropsteini, a lapsus emended in Oudemans (1926), and given its current status in Schulze (1935b)

F: Kohls and Clifford (1961), under the name Ixodes paradoxus, a synonym of Ixodes kopsteini

N: Kohls and Clifford (1961), under the name Ixodes paradoxus

L: Kohls and Clifford (1961), under the name Ixodes paradoxus

Redescriptions

M: Oudemans (1927, under the name Eschatocephalus kopsteini), Schulze (1935b), Kohls and Clifford (1968), Roberts (1970), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Arthur (1965, under the name Ixodes paradoxus), Roberts (1970), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

N: Arthur (1965, under the name Ixodes paradoxus), Roberts (1970)

L: Arthur (1965, under the name Ixodes paradoxus), Roberts (1969), Kadarsan (1971)