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

33. Ixodes brewsterae Keirans, Clifford and Walker, 1982 .

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.