Ixodes walkerae Clifford, Kohls and Hoogstraal, 1968

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 78

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4582962

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Ixodes walkerae Clifford, Kohls and Hoogstraal, 1968
status

 

250. Ixodes walkerae Clifford, Kohls and Hoogstraal, 1968 View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species whose adults have been found on Carnivora : Herpestidae and Viverridae , Galliformes : Numididae , and Passeriformes : Turdidae . There are no records of Ixodes walkerae causing human parasitism.

M: Keirans et al. (1972)

F: Clifford et al. (1968)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Keirans et al. (1972), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

Clifford, C. M., Kohls, G. M. & Hoogstraal, H. (1968) Ixodes walkerae n. sp., from a bird in Kenya (Acarina: Ixodidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 5, 513 - 514. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 5.4.513

Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Ixodes