Ixodes lemuris Arthur, 1958b

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 : 41-42

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.4576397
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4-FFC1-FFEB-FF07-F9FD6705CBBE
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Ixodes lemuris Arthur, 1958b
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125. Ixodes lemuris Arthur, 1958b View in CoL , but see below.

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Primates : Cheirogaleidae ; adult ticks alone have been collected from Primates : Lemuridae , and Rodentia : Muridae . There are no records of Ixodes lemuris causing human parasitism.

M: Blanco et al. (2013)

F: Arthur (1958b)

N: Blanco et al. (2013)

L: Blanco et al. (2013)

Redescriptions

M: none

F: Arthur (1965), Uilenberg et al. (1979), Blanco et al. (2013)

N: none

L: none

Note: Guglielmone et al. (2014) listed Ixodes lemuris as described in 1957, but Doss and Anastos (1977) stated that the description was published in 1958.