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

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scientific name	Ixodes thomasae Arthur and Burrow, 1957
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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.

References

Arthur, D. R. & Burrow, C. (1957) The Ixodes rasus group of African ticks with descriptions of four new species (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 116, 493 - 537.

Elbl A. & Anastos, G. (1966 b) Ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) of Central Africa. Volume II. Genus Ixodes Latreille, 1795. Annales du Musee Royal de l' Afrique Centrale, Serie 8, Sciences Zoologique, 146, 1 - 205.

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

Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.

Morel, P. C., Senevet, G. & Rodhain, F. (1969) Morphologie de quelques larves d' Ixodes d'Afrique centrale. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 79, 132 - 141.