Ixodes inopinatus Estrada-Peña, Nava & Petney, 2014

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 20

111. Ixodes inopinatus Estrada-Peña, Nava & Petney, 2014 .

Palearctic: 1) Algeria, 2) Austria, 3) Germany, 4) Morocco, 5) Portugal, 6) Romania, 7) Spain, 8) Tunisia, 9) Turkey ( Estrada-Peña et al. 2017, Bursali et al. 2020, Rubel et al. 2021, Rubel & Brugger 2022).

Ixodes inopinatus was confused with Ixodes ricinus prior to its description by Estrada-Peña et al. (2014).According to Estrada-Peña et al. (2017), some records of Ixodes festai and Ixodes ventalloi from France and Italy may in fact be Ixodes inopinatus , while Norte et al. (2021) suggested that some 16S sequences of Ixodes inopinatus in GenBank belong to another species. See also Ixodes ricinus for a discussion of that species’ confusion with Ixodes inopinatus .