Ixodes dentatus Marx

Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A., Ritzi, Christopher M., Beckham, Katy R., Super, Paul E & Oconnor, Barry M., 2007, Ectoparasites and other ectosymbiotic arthropods of vertebrates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Zootaxa 1392, pp. 31-68 : 50-51

Ixodes dentatus Marx

Ex Zonotrichia albicollis (white throated sparrow): 1 L, NC, Haywood Co., Purchase Knob, 28 Oct. 2006, P.

Super, L­3371.

Ixodes dentatus is primarily known as a rabbit tick but the larvae feed on birds and other small mammals. Ixodes dentatus has been associated with Borrelia burgdorferi the agent of Lyme disease, Anaplasma phagocytophilum an agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and Babesia divergens the agent of European redwater (Anderson et al. 1996, Goethert & Telford 2003 a,b).