19. Ixodes aulacodi Arthur, 1956c .
An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages, including the undescribed nymph, are usually found on Rodentia: Thryonomyidae, but they have also been found on Rodentia: Muridae . Adults alone have been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Carnivora: Viverridae, and Rodentia: Hystricidae and Nesomyidae; nymphs have been recovered from Passeriformes: Cisticolidae; and larvae from Soricomorpha: Soricidae, and Galliformes: Numididae (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Chitimia-Dobler et al. 2016). There are no records of Ixodes aulacodi causing human parasitism.
M: Chitimia-Dobler et al. (2016)
F: Arthur (1956c)
N: undescribed
L: Morel (1966b)
Redescriptions
M: none
F: Arthur (1965), Elbl and Anastos (1966b), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Chitimia-Dobler (2016)
L: none
Note: Kolonin (2009) indicates that the nymph of Ixodes aulacodi has been described, but no formal description of this stage has been published.