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

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scientific name	Ixodes nchisiensis Arthur, 1958c
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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.

References

Arthur, D. R. (1958 c) New species of Ixodes ticks from eastern Africa, with a description of the male and nymph of Ixodes oldi Nuttall, 1913. Parasitology, 48, 38 - 69. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000021053

Keirans, J. E., Clifford, C. M. & Walker, J. B. (1982) The Ixodes (Afroixodes) oldi group (Acari: Ixodidae) from sub-Saharan Africa with descriptions of five new species. Journal of Medical Entomology, 19, 309 - 329. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 19.3.309

Kolonin, G. V. (2009) Fauna of ixodid ticks of the world. https: // archive. is / CtZk (accessed 26 February 2019)

Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.

Morel, P. C. (1966 b) Sur quelques larves d' Ixodes Latreille, 1796 [sic], d'Afrique (Acariens: Ixodoidea). Acarologia, 8, 208 - 221.