Ixodes sculptus

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 : 64-65

205. Ixodes sculptus Neumann, 1904.

A Nearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Rodentia : Sciuridae , but they have also been found on Lagomorpha : Leporidae , Carnivora (several families) and Rodentia (several families). There are some odd records of adult ticks from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , and Galliformes : Odontophoridae . Ixodes sculptus is a rare parasite of humans.

M: Hixson (1932)

F: Neumann (1904)

N: Hixson (1932)

L: Hixson (1932)

Redescriptions

M: Cooley and Kohls (1945), Gregson (1956), Keirans and Clifford (1978), Furman and Loomis (1984), Keirans and Litwak (1989), Lindquist et al. (2016)

F: Banks (1908), Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Cooley and Kohls (1945), Gregson (1956), Keirans and Clifford (1978), Furman and Loomis (1984), Keirans and Litwak (1989), Lindquist et al. (2016)

N: Cooley and Kohls (1945), Gregson (1956), Furman and Loomis (1984), Durden and Keirans (1996), Lindquist et al. (2016)

L: Allred et al. (1960), Sénevet and Ripert (1967a), Furman and Loomis (1984), Webb et al. (1990), Kleinjan and Lane (2008), Lindquist et al. (2016)

Note: Anstead and Chilton (2014) suggest that more than one species may exist under the name Ixodes sculptus .