Ixodes vespertilionis Koch, 1844c

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 : 77

247. Ixodes vespertilionis Koch, 1844c .

An Afrotropical, Oriental and Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Chiroptera : Rhinolophidae , but all parasitic stages have also been recorded from Chiroptera : Vespertilionidae ; adults and immature stages have been collected from Chiroptera : Emballonuridae and Hipposideridae ; and larvae and nymphs have been taken from Chiroptera : Miniopteridae ( Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Michalik et al. 2020). Ixodes vespertilionis is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Frauenfeld (1853), under the name Eschatocephalus gracilipes , a synonym of Ixodes vespertilionis

F: Koch (1844c)

N: Neumann (1899) , under the name Haemalastor vespertilionis

L: Neumann (1899) , under the name Haemalastor vespertilionis

Redescriptions

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Olenev (1931a), Pomerantzev (1950), Hoogstraal (1956a), Keegan and Toshioka (1957), Emchuk (1960), Arthur (1963, 1965), Babos (1964), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Nosek and Sixl (1972), Teng (1973), Filippova (1977), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Teng and Jiang (1991), Cordas et al. (1993), Siuda (1993), Hillyard (1996), Slovák (2010), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017)

F: Canestrini (1890), Neumann (1899) , Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Olenev (1931a), Pomerantzev (1950), Hoogstraal (1956a), Keegan and Toshioka (1957), Arthur (1956 a, 1963, 1965), Emchuk (1960), Babos (1964), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Filippova (1972, 1977), Nosek and Sixl (1972), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Teng and Jiang (1991), Cordas et al. (1993), Siuda (1993), Hillyard (1996), Slovák (2010), Hornok et al. (2014, 2015a), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017)

N: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Filippova (1958, 1972, 1977), Arthur (1956 a, 1963, 1965), Emchuk (1960), Babos (1964), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Nosek and Sixl (1972), Teng and Jiang (1991), Cordas et al. (1993), Siuda (1993), Manilla and Iori (1993), Slovák (2014), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017)

L: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Filippova (1958, 1972, 1977), Arthur (1956 a, 1963, 1965), Emchuk (1960), Babos (1964), Sénevet and Ripert (1967a), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Nosek and Sixl (1972), Teng and Jiang (1991), Manilla and Iori (1992), Márquez et al. (1992), Cordas et al. (1993), Siuda (1993), Slovák (2014), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998), under the name Eschatocephalus vespertilionis , include the Australasian Region within the range of Ixodes vespertilionis , but there are no bona fide records of this species from the nation of Australia, according to Roberts (1970) and Halliday (2012), or from other localities within the Australasian Region. Nonetheless, Chalada et al. (2016) persist in treating Ixodes vespertilionis as an Australian species. There are several redescriptions of Ixodes vespertilionis under the genera Haemalastor or Eschatocephalus , but these are not included in the above lists. Hornok et al. (2015b) presented molecular evidence indicating that more than one species may exist under the name Ixodes vespertilionis , a hypothesis confirmed with the description of Ixodes collaris in Hornok et al. (2016b) .