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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 gibbosus Nuttall, 1916, Ixodes

Nuttall, G.H.F. (1916) Notes on ticks. IV. Relating to the genus Ixodes and including a description of three new species and two varieties. Parasitology, 8, 294–337.

Type depository: BMNH: a lectotype (male) and paralectotypes (males and females) were designated by Keirans & Brewster (1981)

Type locality: Izmir, Turkey

Type host: domestic goat

Current status: a synonym of Ixodes gibbosus and its original name, as discussed in Keirans & Brewster (1981). The current status of Ixodes ricinus gibbosus, as Ixodes gibbosus, was established by Schulze (1927).

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 pages 187-188, 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

  • Nuttall, G. H. F. (1916) Notes on ticks. IV. Relating to the genus Ixodes and including description of three new species and two varieties. Parasitology, 8, 294-337. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182000010623
  • Keirans, J. E. & Brewster, B. E. (1981) The Nuttall and British Museum (Natural History) tick collections: lectotype designations for ticks (Acarina: Ixodoidea) described by Nuttall, Warburton, Cooper and Robinson. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, Zoology, 41, 153-178.
  • Schulze, P. (1927) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Zecken Europas. Sitzungberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1 - 10, 109-126.