Ixodes lasallei Méndez Arocha and Ortiz, 1958

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 : 41

122. Ixodes lasallei Méndez Arocha and Ortiz, 1958 .

A Neotropical species whose females are usually found on Rodentia : Cuniculidae and Dasyproctidae , but they have also been collected from Carnivora : Felidae , and Didelphimorphia : Didelphidae . See also the note below. There are no records of Ixodes lasallei causing human parasitism.

M: Apanaskevich and Bermúdez (2017); see note below

F: Méndez Arocha and Ortiz (1958)

N: unknown; see note below

L: unknown; see note below

Redescriptions

M: none

F: Apanaskevich and Bermúdez (2017)

Note: the male of Ixodes lasallei described in Kohls and Clifford (1966) in fact corresponds to the male of Ixodes bocatorensis , as explained in Apanaskevich and Bermúdez (2017) when describing the male of Ixodes lasallei . Guglielmone et al. (2014) treated as provisionally valid records of the undescribed larva and nymph of Ixodes lasallei , but this position changed after the closely related Ixodes bocatorensis was described, especially since both species share hosts and have similar distributions, casting doubt on the specific status of immature stages.