Ixodes siamensis Kitaoka and Suzuki, 1983

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 : 65

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scientific name	Ixodes siamensis Kitaoka and Suzuki, 1983
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208. Ixodes siamensis Kitaoka and Suzuki, 1983 View in CoL .

An Oriental species whose larvae have been found on Rodentia : Muridae , and Soricomorpha : Soricidae . There are no records of Ixodes siamensis causing human parasitism.

M: unknown

F: unknown

N: unknown

L: Kitaoka and Suzuki (1983)

Redescriptions: none

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) and Kolonin (2009) regard Ixodes siamensis as a synonym of Ixodes ovatus but provide no evidence to support this view. Ixodes siamensis is treated as provisionally valid in Guglielmone et al. (2009, 2014, 2015), Guglielmone and Nava (2014) and here.

References

Camicas, J. L., Hervy, J. P., Adam, F. & Morel, P. C. (1998) Les tiques du monde. Nomenclature, stades decrits, hotes, repartition (Acarida, Ixodida). Orstom, Paris, 233 pp.

Guglielmone, A. A., Robbins, R. G., Apanaskevich, D. A., Petney, T. N., Estrada-Pena, A. & Horak, I. G. (2009) Comments on controversial tick (Acari: Ixodida) species names and species described or resurrected from 2003 to 2008. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 48, 311 - 327. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10493 - 009 - 9246 - 2

Guglielmone, A. A. & Nava, S. (2014) Names for Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): valid, synonyms, incertae sedis, nomina dubia, nomina nuda, lapsus, incorrect and suppressed names - with notes on confusions and misidentifications. Zootaxa, 3767 (1), 1 - 256. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3767.1.1

Kitaoka, S. & Suzuki, H. (1983) Studies on the parasite fauna of Thailand 5. Parasitic ticks on mammals and description of Ixodes siamensis sp. n. and Rhipicephalus tetracornus sp. n. (Acarina: Ixodidae). Tropical Medicine, 25, 205 - 219.

Kolonin, G. V. (2009) Fauna of ixodid ticks of the world. https: // archive. is / CtZk (accessed 26 February 2019)