Ixodes neuquenensis Ringuelet, 1947

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 : 50-51

161. Ixodes neuquenensis Ringuelet, 1947 .

A Neotropical species, all described stages of which are known only to parasitize Microbiotheria : Microbiotheriidae .

M: unknown; see note below.

F: Boero (1945), under the name Ixodes brunneus , and given its current status in Ringuelet (1947)

N: Guglielmone et al. (2004)

L: Guglielmone et al. (2004)

Redescriptions

F: Ringuelet (1947), Guglielmone et al. (2004), Nava et al. (2017)

N: Nava et al. (2017)

L: none

Note: the nymph described by Ringuelet (1947) as Ixodes neuquenensis belongs to another as yet undetermined species ( Guglielmone et al. 2004), but Camicas et al. (1998) state, erroneously, that the nymph is the only known stage of Ixodes neuquenensis . The alleged male of Ixodes neuquenensis found on a fox by Daciuk et al. (1981) was subsequently identified as Amblyomma tigrinum , as discussed in Guglielmone and Nava (2005). Sebastian et al. (2016) found specimens that were identified as Ixodes cf. I. neuquenensis , implying that more than one species may be included under the name Ixodes neuquenensis . See also Ixodes brunneus .