48. Ixodes columnae Takada and Fujita, 1992 .

A Palearctic species (see note below), all of whose known parasitic stages have been found on Rodentia: Sciuridae; immature stages have been collected from Rodentia: Cricetidae and Muridae, Galliformes: Phasianidae, Passeriformes (several families), and Piciformes: Picidae . Ixodes columnae is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: unknown

F: Takada and Fujita (1992)

N: Takada and Fujita (1978), under the provisional name Ixodes sp. N 2, as explained in Takada and Fujita (1992) L: Takada and Fujita (1978), under the provisional name Ixodes sp. L1, as explained in Takada and Fujita (1992) Redescriptions

F: none

N: Takada and Fujita (1992), Fujita and Takada (2007)

L: Takada and Fujita (1992), Fujita and Takada (2007)

Note: Guglielmone and Robbins (2018) state that if Taiwanese records in Kuo et al. (2017) are confirmed, Ixodes columnae will be an Oriental and Palearctic species.