Ixodes vanidicus Schulze 1943
- Dataset
- Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Ixodida
- family
- Ixodidae
- genus
- Ixodes
- species
- Ixodes vanidicus
description
M: Schulze (1943 b) F: Schulze (1943 b) N: Schulze (1943 b) L: Schulze (1943 b) Redescriptions M: Arthur (1965), Keirans et al. (1982), Matthysse and Colbo (1987) F: Arthur (1965), Keirans et al. (1982), Matthysse and Colbo (1987) N: Arthur (1965) L: Arthur (1965), Sénevet and Ripert (1967 a) Note: see Ixodes oldi for a discussion of the problems involved in morphologically identifying the species constituting the oldi group, to which Ixodes vanidicus belongs.
discussion
An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Carnivora: Herpestidae; adults alone have been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Carnivora: Canidae, Felidae and Viverridae, and Macroscelidea: Macroscelididae. Ixodes vanidicus is a very rare parasite of humans.
Name
- Homonyms
- Ixodes vanidicus Schulze 1943