56. Ixodes cornuatus Roberts, 1960 .

An Australasian species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Carnivora: Canidae, and Rodentia: Muridae; adults alone have been collected from Carnivora: Felidae, Diprotodontia: Phascolarctidae and Vombatidae, and Casuariiformes: Casuariidae; immature stages have been recovered from Diprotodontia: Macropodidae, Phalangeridae and Potoroidae, and Passeriformes: Acanthizidae, Cracticidae and Pachycephalidae, and unknown stages have been found on Perissodactyla: Equidae (Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Barker & Barker 2020). Ixodes cornuatus is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Roberts (1960)

F: Roberts (1960)

N: undescribed

L: Kemp (1980)

Redescriptions

M: Roberts (1970), Jackson et al. (2002), Barker and Walker (2014), Barker et al. (2014)

F: Roberts (1970), Jackson et al. (2002), Barker and Walker (2014), Barker et al. (2014), Kwak (2017)

L: Jackson et al. (2002)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) and Kolonin (2009) state that the larva of Ixodes cornuatus is undescribed; the latter author also doubts the validity of Ixodes cornuatus, perhaps following Roberts (1970), who stated that Ixodes cornuatus may be a subspecies of Ixodes holocyclus .