156. Ixodes nairobiensis Nuttall, 1916 .

An Afrotropical species whose females and the undescribed nymph have been found on Soricomorpha: Soricidae; females alone have been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae and Suidae, Carnivora: Canidae, Herpestidae and Viverridae, and Rodentia: Muridae . There are no records of Ixodes nairobiensis causing human parasitism.

M: unknown

F: Nuttall (1916)

N: undescribed; see note below

L: unknown

Redescriptions

F: Hoogstraal (1956a), Arthur (1959, 1965), Elbl and Anastos (1966b), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

Note: the larva and nymph of Ixodes nairobiensis are listed as described in Camicas et al. (1998), but there are no formal descriptions of those stages.