163. Ixodes nipponensis Kitaoka and Saito, 1967 .

An Oriental and Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Carnivora: Canidae; adults and nymphs have been found on Carnivora: Felidae and Mustelidae; adults and larvae have been collected from Lagomorpha: Leporidae . Adults alone have been taken from Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Cervidae and Suidae, and Carnivora: Ursidae; immature stages alone have been recovered from Erinaceomorpha: Erinaceidae, Perissodactyla: Equidae, Rodentia: Cricetidae, Muridae and Sciuridae; Soricomorpha: Soricidae and Talpidae, Squamata: Lacertidae and Scincidae, and Passeriformes (several families) (Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Chae et al. 2019, Lee et al. 2019, Saleh et al. 2019). Ixodes nipponensis is a frequent parasite of humans.

M: Kitaoka and Saito (1967)

N: Kitaoka and Saito (1967)

N: Kitaoka and Saito (1967)

L: Kitaoka and Saito (1967)

Redescriptions

M: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Filippova (1977), Yamaguti (1981), Yamauchi and Takada (2015)

F: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Filippova (1977), Yamaguti (1981), Yamauchi and Takada (2015)

N: Filippova (1969, 1977), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Fujita and Takada (2007), Ra et al. (2011)

L: Filippova (1969, 1977), Snow and Arthur (1970), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Fujita and Takada (2007), Ra et al. (2011)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) list the nymph of Ixodes nipponensis as undescribed, but this stage was described in Kitaoka and Saito (1967).