Ixodes tanuki Saito, 1964

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 : 70-71

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scientific name	Ixodes tanuki Saito, 1964
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227. Ixodes tanuki Saito, 1964 View in CoL .

An Oriental and Palearctic species whose adults and nymphs have been found on Carnivora : Canidae and Mustelidae ; adults alone have been collected from Carnivora : Felidae and Procyonidae ; immature stages have been recovered from Artiodactyla : Cervidae , and Rodentia : Cricetidae and Muridae ( Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Torii et al. 2019). Ixodes tanuki is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Saito (1964)

F: Saito (1964)

N: Fujita and Takada (1979)

L: Fujita and Takada (2007)

Redescriptions

M: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Clifford et al. (1975a), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Teng (1982a), Teng and Jiang (1991), Lee et al. (1997), Yamauchi and Takada (2015); see note below

F: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Clifford et al. (1975a), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Teng (1982a), Teng and Jiang (1991), Lee et al. (1997), Yamauchi and Takada (2015); see note below

N: Fujita and Takada (2007)

L: none

Note: Clifford et al. (1975a) state that their figures of the male and female of Ixodes tanuki show critical morphological features not depicted in the descriptions of Saito (1964) or the redescriptions of Yamaguti et al. (1971).

References

Clifford, C. M., Hoogstraal, H. & Keirans, J. E. (1975 a) The Ixodes ticks (Acarina: Ixodidae) of Nepal. Journal of Medical Entomology, 12, 115 - 137. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 12.1.115

Fujita, H. & Takada, N. (1979) Some unassociated tick species in the northern part of Honshu, Japan, with the keys to immatures stages. Annual Report of the Ohara General Hospital, 22, 13 - 19. [in Japanese]

Fujita, H. & Takada, N. (2007) Identification of immature ticks in Japan. In: Organization Committee of SADI (Ed.), Acari and Emerging / Reemerging Diseases. Kyoiku Kyokai Publishing Co, Tokyo, pp. 53 - 68. [in Japanese]

Guglielmone, A. A. & Robbins, R. G. (2018) Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) parasitizing humans. A global overview. Springer, Cham, 314 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 95552 - 0

Lee, W. K., Lim, J. W, Lee, S. E. & Lee, I. Y. (1997) Redescription of Haemaphysalis flava and Ixodes tanuki collected from a raccoon dog in Korea. Korean Journal of Parasitology, 35, 1 - 8. https: // doi. org / 10.3347 / kjp. 1997.35.1.1

Saito, Y. (1964) Studies on ixodid ticks. VII. Notes on the ticks infesting badgers in Japan, with a description of Ixodes tanuki n. sp. Acta Medica et Biologica, 12, 59 - 66.

Teng, K. F. (1982 a) Acarina: Ixodidae. In: Insects of Xizang (Tibet). Vol. II. Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, pp. 449 - 461. [in Chinese, translation RR 2 by Robbins, F. - M. Y.]

Teng, K. F. & Jiang, Z. J (1991) Economic insect fauna of China. Fascicule 39, Acari: Ixodidae. Science Press, Beijing, 355 pp. [in Chinese]

Torii, S., Matsuno, K., Qiu, Y., Mori-Kajihara, A., Kajihara, M., Nakao, R., Nao, N., Okazaki, K., Sashika, M., Hiono, T., Okamatsu, M., Sakoda, Y., Ebihara, H., Takada, A. & Sawa, H. (2019) Infection of newly identified phleboviruses in ticks and wild animals in Hokkaido, Japan, indicating tick-borne life cycles. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 10, 328 - 335. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ttbdis. 2018.11.012

Yamaguti, N., Tipton, V. J., Keegan, H. L. & Toshioka, S. (1971) Ticks of Japan, Korea, and the Ryukyu Islands. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series, 15 (1), 1 - 226. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 25691

Yamaguti, N. & Kitaoka, S. (1980) Family Ixodidae. In: Ebara, S. (Ed.), Illustrations of the mites and ticks of Japan. Zenkoku Kyokai, Tokyo, pp. 146 - 161. [in Japanese]

Yamaguti, N. (1981) Key to the Japanese Ixodoidea. In: Sasa, M. & Aoki, J. (Eds.), Advances in Acarology. Hokuryu-Kan, Tokyo, pp. 451 - 472. [in Japanese]

Yamauchi, T. & Takada, A. (2015) Illustrations of common adult ticks in the mainland Japan. Bulletin of the Hoshizaki Green Foundation, 18, 287 - 305.