Ixodes muniensis 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 : 48

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4576470

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scientific name

Ixodes muniensis Arthur and Burrow, 1957
status

 

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An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Carnivora : Canidae and Herpestidae , and Rodentia : Nesomyidae ; adults and larvae have been collected from Carnivora : Felidae ; adults alone have been recovered from Artiodactyla : Giraffidae and Suidae , and Carnivora : Viverridae ; immature stages have been found on Hyracoidea : Procaviidae , Primates : Hominidae , Rodentia : Gliridae , Muridae and Sciuridae , and Galliformes : Numididae ( Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Guglielmone et al. 2014). Ixodes muniensis is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Arthur and Burrow (1957)

F: Arthur and Burrow (1957)

N: Arthur and Burrow (1957)

L: Arthur and Burrow (1957)

Redescriptions

M: Arthur (1965), Elbl and Anastos (1966b), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Arthur (1965), Elbl and Anastos (1966b), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

N: Arthur (1965)

L: Arthur (1965), Morel (1966b), Sénevet and Ripert (1967a)

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.

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

Morel, P. C. (1966 b) Sur quelques larves d' Ixodes Latreille, 1796 [sic], d'Afrique (Acariens: Ixodoidea). Acarologia, 8, 208 - 221.

Senevet, G. & Ripert, C. (1967 a) Les larves des especes du genre Ixodes. Essai de revue d'ensemble. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 42, 79 - 121. https: // doi. org / 10.1051 / parasite / 1967421079

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Ixodes