Ixodes nchisiensis Arthur, 1958c

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4576492
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scientific name	Ixodes nchisiensis Arthur, 1958c
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157. Ixodes nchisiensis Arthur, 1958c View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages, including the undescribed nymph, are usually found on Soricomorpha : Soricidae ; adults and nymphs have been recovered from Rodentia : Muridae ; adults alone have been collected from Macroscelidea : Macroscelididae . There are no records of Ixodes nchisiensis causing human parasitism.

M: Arthur (1958c)

F: Arthur (1958c)

N: undescribed

L: Morel (1966b); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Arthur (1965), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Arthur (1965), Keirans et al. (1982), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

L: none

Note: Kolonin (2009) lists the larva of Ixodes nchisiensis as undescribed. See also Ixodes oldi for a discussion of the problems involved in morphologically identifying the species constituting the oldi group, to which Ixodes nchisiensis belongs.