Ixodes loricatus Neumann, 1899

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 : 43

129. Ixodes loricatus Neumann, 1899 .

A Neotropical species (see note below) whose adults are usually found on Didelphimorphia : Didelphidae ; common hosts for larvae and nymphs are Didelphidae and Rodentia : Cricetidae . All parasitic stages have been found on Rodentia : Cricetidae and Muridae ; adults alone have been recovered from Carnivora : Procyonidae , Cingulata : Dasypodidae , and Rodentia : Caviidae and Cuniculidae ( Cooley & Kohls 1945, Guglielmone et al. 2014, Nava et al. 2017). There are no bona fide records of Ixodes loricatus causing human parasitism.

M: Neumann (1899)

F: Neumann (1899)

N: Neumann (1899)

L: Neumann (1899)

Redescriptions

M: Neumann (1911a) , Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Cooley and Kohls (1945), Aragão and Fonseca (1961a), Onofrio et al. (2006 a, 2009), Marques et al. (2004), Nava et al. (2017)

F: Neumann (1911a) , Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Cooley and Kohls (1945), Boero (1957), Aragão and Fonseca (1961a), Onofrio et al. (2006 a, 2009), Marques et al. (2004), Nava et al. (2017)

N: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Cooley and Kohls (1945), Marques et al. (2004), Nava et al. (2017)

L: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Sénevet and Ripert (1967a), Marques et al. (2004)

Note: Ixodes loricatus is an eastern South American species, and records outside this region are due to misidentifications or mislabeling, as explained in Guglielmone et al. (2011); therefore, inclusion of Ixodes loricatus in the identification keys for Panamanian ( Fairchild et al. 1966) or Mexican ( Guzmán-Cornejo & Robbins 2010) ticks is unjustified, and its presence in Colombia, as asserted by Acevedo-Gutiérrez et al. (2020) is not accepted here.