Ixodes laridis Heath and Palma, 2017

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 : 40

121. Ixodes laridis Heath and Palma, 2017 .

An Australasian species whose adults have mostly been collected from Charadriiformes : Laridae , while most larvae and nymphs have been found on Laridae and on Suliformes : Sulidae . All parasitic stages have been recovered from Charadriiformes : Laridae , Pelecaniformes : Threskiornithidae , Procellariiformes : Diomedeidae , and Suliformes : Phalacrocoracidae and Sulidae ; adults and nymphs have been collected from Strigiformes : Tytonidae ; nymphs alone have been taken from Procellariiformes : Procellariidae ( Heath & Palma 2017) . There are no records of Ixodes laridis causing human parasitism.

M: Heath and Palma (2017)

F: Roberts (1970), under the name Ixodes eudyptidis , as explained in Heath and Palma (2017)

N: Heath and Palma (2017)

L: Dumbleton (1953), under the Ixodes eudyptidis , as explained in Heath and Palma (2017). See note below Redescriptions

M: none

F: Heath and Palma (2017)

N: none

L: Heath and Palma (2017)

Note: Ixodes laridis has been extensively confused with Ixodes eudyptidis , as explained in Heath and Palma (2017).