66. Ixodes dentatus Marx, 1899 in Neumann (1899).

A Nearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually

found on Lagomorpha: Leporidae; adult ticks alone have also been collected from carnivores ( Procyonidae); immature stages have been taken on Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae, Rodentia: Cricetidae, Sciuridae and Muridae, as well as Passeriformes (several families). Ixodes dentatus is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Smith (1940)

F: Neumann (1899)

N: Smith (1940)

L: Smith (1940)

Redescriptions

M: Cooley and Kohls (1945), Keirans and Clifford (1978), Keirans and Litwak (1989), Lindquist et al. (2016)

F: Banks (1908), Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Cooley and Kohls (1945), Lancaster (1973), Keirans and Clifford (1978), Sonenshine (1979), Keirans and Litwak (1989). Lindquist et al. (2016)

N: Cooley and Kohls (1945), Sonenshine (1979), Durden and Keirans (1996), Lindquist et al. (2016)

L: Clifford et al. (1961), Sénevet and Ripert (1967a), Sonenshine (1979), Lindquist et al. (2016)

Note: see also Ixodes diversifossus and Ixodes pomerantzi for their confusion with Ixodes dentatus .