Ixodes holocyclus 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 : 35

102. Ixodes holocyclus Neumann, 1899 .

An Australasian species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Mammalia (several orders) and Passeriformes : Cracticidae ; adults alone have been collected from Passeriformes : Corvidae, Casuariiformes : Casusariidae, and Psittaciformes : Psittacidae ; immature stages have been recovered from Cuculiformes : Cuculidae , and Passeriformes : Acanthizidae , Melephagidae and Ptilonorhynchidae ( Chalada et al. 2018, Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Loh et al. 2018). Ixodes holocyclus is a frequent parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1899)

F: Neumann (1899)

N: Neumann (1899)

L: Clunies Ross (1924)

Redescriptions

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Clunies Ross (1924), Roberts (1960, 1970), Jackson et al. (2002), Barker and Walker (2014), Barker et al. (2014)

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Clunies Ross (1924), Roberts (1960, 1970), Jackson et al. (2002), Barker and Walker (2014), Barker et al. (2014), Kwak (2017)

N: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Clunies Ross (1924), Roberts (1960, 1970), Jackson et al. (2002)

L: Sénevet and Ripert (1967a), Roberts (1960, 1969), Kemp (1980), Jackson et al. (2002)

Note: there are a number of redescriptions of alleged Ixodes holocyclus collected outside Australia, e.g., Sharif (1928) and Krijgsman and Ponto (1932), but these are probably based on misidentifications.