Ixodes thomasae Arthur and Burrow, 1957

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 : 72

233. Ixodes thomasae Arthur and Burrow, 1957 .

An Afrotropical species whose adults have been found on Mammalia (several orders), Cuculiformes : Cuculidae , and Passeriformes : Malaconotidae and Ploceidae ; larvae have been collected from Soricomorpha : Soricidae . There are no records of Ixodes thomasae causing human parasitism.

M: Keirans et al. (1972)

F: Arthur and Burrow (1957)

N: unknown

L: Morel et al. (1969), under the name larva B, as explained in Morel (1976); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Arthur (1965), Elbl and Anastos (1966b), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

L: none

Note: Kolonin (2009) states that the larva of Ixodes thomasae is undescribed, but Guglielmone et al. (2014) treat as provisionally valid the above statement in Morel (1976), a view also supported here.