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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4582909

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4-FFAE-FF85-FF07-FBC5610ACD16

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Ixodes thomasae Arthur and Burrow, 1957
status

 

233. Ixodes thomasae Arthur and Burrow, 1957 View in CoL .

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Ixodes

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF