Ixodes victoriensis Nuttall, 1916

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 : 77-78

249. Ixodes victoriensis Nuttall, 1916 . An Australasian species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on

Diprotodontia : Potoroidae and Vombatidae (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Weaver 2016). There are no records of Ixodes victoriensis causing human parasitism.

M: Weaver (2016)

F: Nuttall (1916)

N: Weaver (2016)

L: Weaver (2016)

Redescriptions

M: none

F: Roberts (1960, 1970), Weaver (2016)

N: none

L: none

Note: Weaver (2016) found morphological differences among Ixodes victoriensis from Victoria and Tasmania in relation to specimens of the same taxon collected in Western Australia, but feels that such differences are insufficient to warrant separate species status for these populations.