Ixodes elongatus Bedford, 1929

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 : 27-28

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4580521
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scientific name	Ixodes elongatus Bedford, 1929
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78. Ixodes elongatus Bedford, 1929 View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species whose females and the undescribed larva and nymph have been found on Macroscelidea : Macroscelididae (provisional diagnosis of nymphs and larvae); females alone have been collected from Rodentia : Muridae , and Soricomorpha : Soricidae . There are no records of Ixodes elongatus causing human parasitism.

M: unknown; see note below

F: Bedford (1929)

N: undescribed

L: undescribed

Redescription

F: Arthur (1959, 1965)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) listed the male of Ixodes elongatus as described, but no description of this stage has been found.

References

Arthur, D. R. (1959) The Ixodes nairobiensis complex of species with descriptions of four new species (Ixodoidea: Ixodidae). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 59, 137 - 157.

Bedford, G. A. H. (1929) Notes on some South African ticks, with descriptions of three new species. 15 th Annual Report of the Director of Veterinary Services, Department of Agriculture, Union of South Africa, 1929, 493 - 499.

Camicas, J. L., Hervy, J. P., Adam, F. & Morel, P. C. (1998) Les tiques du monde. Nomenclature, stades decrits, hotes, repartition (Acarida, Ixodida). Orstom, Paris, 233 pp.