Ixodes festai Tonelli Rondelli, 1926b

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 : 29

83. Ixodes festai Tonelli Rondelli, 1926b .

A Palearctic species whose adults have been found on Galliformes : Phasianidae , and Passeriformes : Fringillidae , Prunellidae and Turdidae , with rare records from Carnivora : Canidae , and Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae . Ixodes festai is a very rare parasite of humans, with a record from people treated as provisionally valid in Guglielmone and Robbins (2018).

M: Pérez-Eid (2007)

F: Tonelli Rondelli (1926b)

N: unknown; see note below

L: unknown; see note below

Redescriptions

M: none

F: Gilot and Pérez (1978), Siuda and Szymanski (1991), Siuda (1993), Pérez-Eid (2007)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) list the nymph and larva of Ixodes festai as having been described, but we follow Pérez-Eid (2007) who regards these stages as undescribed. Estrada-Peña et al. (2017) assert that the male of Ixodes festai in Contini et al. (2011) is, in fact, the male of Ixodes eldaricus . Estrada-Peña et al. (2017) also state that the supposed description of Ixodes festai in Arthur (1957c, 1965 ) in fact represents Ixodes ventalloi , and that this is also the case with the adults, larva and nymph described by Arthur (1958 a, 1963), and the larva described in Sénevet and Ripert (1967a) and Sénevet and Rodhain (1968).