Ixodes arboricola Schulze & Schlottke, 1929

Fedorov, Denis & Hornok, Sándor, 2024, Checklist of hosts, illustrated geographical range, and ecology of tick species from the genus Ixodes (Acari, Ixodidae) in Russia and other post-Soviet countries, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 255-343 : 255-343

Ixodes arboricola Schulze & Schlottke, 1929

Ixodes arboricola Schulze & Schlottke : Morel and Pérez 1973: 275.

Ixodes arboricola muscicapae Schulze, 1930: 3; Haarløv 1962: 425.

Ixodes strigicola Schulze & Schlottke: Haarløv 1962: 425.

Ixodes dryadis Schulze & Schlottke: Haarløv 1962: 425.

Ixodes passericola Schulze: Haarløv 1962: 425.

Ixodes arboricola bogatschevi Kirshenblat, 1936: 93; Haarløv 1962: 425.

Ixodes lagodechiensis Dzhaparidze, 1950: 117; Kolonin 1981: 84.

Recorded hosts.

Aves: Accipiter gentilis (Linnaeus) (northern goshawk), Acrocephalus scirpaceus (Hermann) (Eurasian reed warbler), Aegithalos caudatus (Linnaeus) (long-tailed tit), Aegolius funereus (Linnaeus) (boreal owl), Athene noctua (little owl), Certhia brachydactyla Brehm (short-toed treecreeper), Certhia familiaris Linnaeus (Eurasian treecreeper), Chloris chloris (European greenfinch), Coloeus monedula (Linnaeus) (western jackdaw), Columba palumbus Linnaeus (common wood pigeon), Coracias garrulus Linnaeus (European roller), Corvus frugilegus Linnaeus (rook), Curruca communis (common whitethroat), Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus) (Eurasian blue tit), Dendrocopos major (great spotted woodpecker), Emberiza citrinella (yellowhammer), Erithacus rubecula (European robin), Falco peregrinus Tunstall (peregrine falcon), Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus (common kestrel), Ficedula albicollis (Temminck) (collared flycatcher), Ficedula hypoleuca (European pied flycatcher), Garrulus glandarius (Eurasian jay), Glaucidium passerinum (Linnaeus) (Eurasian pygmy owl), Hirundo rustica Linnaeus (barn swallow), Lophophanes cristatus (Linnaeus) (crested tit), Motacilla alba (white wagtail), Muscicapa striata (Pallas) (spotted flycatcher), Parus major (great tit), Passer domesticus (house sparrow), Passer montanus (Eurasian tree sparrow), Periparus ater (Linnaeus) (coal tit), Phoenicurus ochruros (Gmelin) (black redstart), Phoenicurus phoenicurus (common redstart), Phylloscopus trochilus (Linnaeus) (willow warbler), Picus canus Gmelin (grey-headed woodpecker), Poecile montanus (Conrad von Baldenstein) (willow tit), Poecile palustris (Linnaeus) (marsh tit), Pyrrhula pyrrhula (Linnaeus) (Eurasian bullfinch), Remiz pendulinus (Linnaeus) (Eurasian penduline tit), Riparia riparia (Linnaeus) (sand martin), Serinus serinus (Linnaeus) (European serin), Sitta europaea (Eurasian nuthatch) ( Filippova 1977; Keve et al. 2022), western rock nuthatch Sitta neumayer Michahelles ( Ogandzhanyan 1984) , Spinus spinus (Linnaeus) (Eurasian siskin), Strix aluco Linnaeus (tawny owl), Sturnus vulgaris (common starling), Troglodytes troglodytes (Linnaeus) (Eurasian wren), Turdus merula (common blackbird), Turdus philomelos (song thrush), Tyto alba (Scopoli) (barn owl), Upupa epops Linnaeus (Eurasian hoopoe) ( Filippova 1977; Keve et al. 2022).

Recorded locations

(Fig. 22 ). Russia: Southern Primorskyi Krai (Pogranichny District, Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Putyatin Island) ( Emelyanova and Gordeeva 1969; Emelyanova 1972; Bolotin 2000). Ukraine: outskirts of Kyiv ( Nebogatkin 2014), Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (the rural locality Andriivka), Crimea (Olenivka and Alushta) ( Filippova 1977). Belarus: Białowieża Forest, Minsk, Gomel Oblast (the village Markovskoye) ( Gembetsky 1966, 1972). Armenia: Syunik Province (former Goris Province) ( Ogandzhanyan 1984). Azerbaijan: Karabakh ( Kirschenblatt 1936). Georgia: Lagodekhi Nature Reserve ( Djaparidze 1960). Kyrgyzstan ( Fedorova 2012 a).

Ecology and other information.

Ixodes arboricola is an endophilic parasite, mainly of birds from ecological groups nesting in tree holes and nest boxes and also even in ground burrows ( Filippova 1977). Also, certain cases of this species infesting bats in tree holes have been recorded ( Arthur 1963).

The interesting feature of its distribution is the disjunctivity, which is confirmed by the discovery of this species in the areas quite distant from each other – western and central Europe, North Africa, Transcaucasia, western Asia, and the Far East in Russia ( Estrada-Peña et al. 2018) and China ( Chen et al. 2010).

Figures

Figure 22. Map of Russia and neighboring countries showing the locations where Ixodes arboricola was reported.