Ixodes copei Wilson, 1980

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 : 21

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4576152

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Ixodes copei Wilson, 1980
status

 

53. Ixodes copei Wilson, 1980 View in CoL .

A Neotropical species known from a female found on Passeriformes : Mimidae , while larvae have been collected from Passeriformes : Turdidae . There are no records of Ixodes copei causing human parasitism.

M: unknown

F: Wilson (1980)

N: unknown

L: Wilson (1980)

Redescriptions: none

Note: Ixodes copei is a Neotropical tick morphologically close to Ixodes brunneus , but other as yet undescribed species in this group probably occur in the Neotropics.

Wilson, N. (1980) Records of ticks from Jamaica with the description of Ixodes (Ixodes) copei n. sp. from the mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos (Acari: Ixodidae). International Journal of Acarology, 6, 157 - 162. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 01647958008683210

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Ixodes