Ixodes rageaui 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 : 59

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4582819
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scientific name	Ixodes rageaui Arthur, 1958b
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189. Ixodes rageaui Arthur, 1958b View in CoL , but see below.

An Afrotropical species whose adults have been found on Primates : Cercopithecidae . Ixodes rageaui is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Arthur (1958b)

F: Arthur (1958b)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

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

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

Note: Ixodes rageaui was originally identified as Ixodes schillingsi . Guglielmone et al. (2014) listed Ixodes rageaui as having been described in 1957, but Doss and Anastos (1977) stated that the journal issue containing this description was published in 1958.

References

Arthur, D. R. (1958 b) The Ixodes schillingsi group: ticks of Africa and Madagascar, parasitic on primates, with descriptions of two new species (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae). Parasitology, 47, 544 - 559. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000022174

Doss, M. A. & Anastos, G. (1977) Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology. Special publication Nº. 3. Ticks and tickborne diseases. III. Checklist of families, genera, species and subspecies of ticks. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 97 pp.

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.