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Ixodes testudinis Conil 1877

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

testudinis Conil, 1877, Ixodes

Conil, P.A. (1877) Description d’une nouvelle espèce d’ixode, Ixodes testudinis. Acta de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Argentina, 3, 25–37.

Type depository: unknown: syntypes (males and females)

Type locality: Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina

Type host: Testudo sulcata

Current status: a preoccupied name whose current valid name is Amblyomma argentinae Neumann, 1905; Neumann described this species without considering it a synonym or a new name for Ixodes testudinis Conil, 1877 (Guglielmone et al. 2001).

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 216, 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)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/15215074 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/7E5A8630FFC54215FFB4FFEFFFE4FFA8 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/D0851EDA-FE18-4F87-9245-B108786B22F4 (URL)
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References

  • Conil, P. A. (1877) Description d'une nouvelle espece d'ixode, Ixodes testudinis. Acta de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Argentina, 3, 25-37.
  • Neumann, L. G. (1905) Notes sur les ixodides. III. Archives de Parasitologie, 9, 225-241.
  • Guglielmone, A. A., Luciani, C. A. & Mangold, A. J. (2001) Aspects of the ecology of Amblyomma argentinae Neumann, 1904 [= Amblyomma testudinis (Conil, 1877)] (Acari: Ixodidae). Systematic & Applied Acarology Special Publication, 8, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.11158/saasp.8.1.1