Ixodes trianguliceps Birula, 1895

Kitrytė, Neringa & Baltrūnaitė, Laima, 2023, Ectoparasitic mites, ticks (Acari: Trombidiformes, Mesostigmata, Ixodida) and insects (Insecta: Psocodea, Siphonaptera) of ground-dwelling small mammals in the Baltic States. An annotated checklist, Zootaxa 5353 (1), pp. 1-46 : 17

Ixodes trianguliceps Birula, 1895

Ixodes trianguliceps Birula, 1895: 358 .

Records in Baltic States: Estonia ( Korenberg & Lebedeva 1969; Pototski et al. 1993; Vikentjeva et al. 2021), Latvia ( Lapina 1959; 1960; 1961; Grinbergs 1960; 1961a; 1961b; 1961d; 1964; Korenberg & Lebedeva 1969; Salmane 2012), Lithuania ( Jezerskienė 1974; Podėnaitė 1979; Paulauskas et al. 2010; current study).

Hosts: S. araneus (LV, LT) , S. minutus (LV, LT) , A. agrarius (LV, LT) , A. flavicollis (EE, LV, LT) , M. musculus (LV, LT) , A. oeconomus (LT) , A. amphibius (LV) , C. glareolus (EE, LV, LT) , M. agrestis (LT) , M. arvalis (LV, LT) .

Host specificity: generalist parasite (S i =0.25).

European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom ( Sosnina et al. 1969; Aeschlimann et al. 1970; Černy 1972; Gilot et al. 1976a; Filippova 1977; Zapatero Ramos et al. 1978; Haitlinger 1979; 2011; 2015; Martyn 1988; Tovornik 1988; Estrada-Peña et al. 1992; Jaenson et al. 1994; Chikilevskaya et al. 1998; Walter 2000; Coipan et al. 2011; Krčmar 2012; Baráková et al. 2018; Maaz et al. 2018; Hornok et al. 2020; Rubel & Brugger 2022).