Ixodes brewsterae Keirans, Clifford and Walker, 1982

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 : 15

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4576084
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scientific name	Ixodes brewsterae Keirans, Clifford and Walker, 1982
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33. Ixodes brewsterae Keirans, Clifford and Walker, 1982 View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Carnivora : Herpestidae , with a single record from Carnivora : Felidae . There are no records of Ixodes brewsterae causing human parasitism.

M: Keirans et al. (1982)

F: Keirans et al. (1982)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

Note: see Ixodes oldi for a discussion of the problems involved in morphologically identifying the species constituting the oldi group, to which Ixodes brewsterae belongs.

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

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