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Ixodes ricinus Linnaeus 1758

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Smithsonian Institution, Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland 20746, USA & One Health Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA & Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560, USA
  • 2. Instituto de Investigación de la Cadena Láctea (INTA-CONICET), Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela, ruta 34 km 227, Rafaela, Santa Fe, Argentina
  • 3. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815, USA
  • 4. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA & Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 5. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela, ruta 34 km 227, CP 2300 Rafaela, Argentina

Description

ricinus Linnaeus, 1758, Acarus

Linnaeus, C. (1758 Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. 1. Editio Decima, Reformata. Impensis Direct, Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, 823 pp.

Type depository: LC: (developmental stages undetermined) but lost

Type locality: undetermined

Type host: cattle and dogs

Current status: a synonym of Ixodes ricinus and its original name. The current status of Acarus ricinus, as Ixodes ricinus, was established by Latreille (1804).

Notes

Published as part of Robbins, Richard G., Nava, Santiago, Ronai, Isobel, Chong, Kaylin L. & Guglielmone, Alberto A., 2025, Type specimens of the world's hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names, pp. 1-287 in Zootaxa 5606 (1) on page 187, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15215074

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1 (DOI)
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References

  • Latreille, P. A. (1804) Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere des crustaces et des insectes. Tome VIII, F. Dufart, Paris, 411 pp.