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Ixodes ceylonensis Kohls 1950
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Description
43. Ixodes ceylonensis Kohls, 1950b.
An Oriental species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Rodentia: Muridae; larvae and nymphs are also commonly recovered from Soricomorpha: Soricidae; adults and nymphs have been collected from Carnivora: Felidae and Herpestidae, and Primates: Cercopithecidae; adults alone have been found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae; immature stages have been taken from Rodentia: Sciuridae, and rarely from Passeriformes: Alaudidae. There are no records of Ixodes ceylonensis causing human parasitism.
M: Rajagopalan and Boshell (1966)
F: Kohls (1950b)
N: Rajagopalan and Boshell (1966)
L: Rajagopalan and Boshell (1966)
Redescriptions: none
Notes
Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, pp. 1-322 in Zootaxa 4871 (1) on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Kohls
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Ixodida
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Ixodes
- Species
- ceylonensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ixodes ceylonensis Kohls, 1950 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020
References
- Kohls, G. M. (1950 b) Two new species of ticks from Ceylon (Acarina: Ixodidae). Journal of Parasitology, 36, 319 - 321. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3273465
- Rajagopalan, P. K. & Boshell, J. (1966) Hosts and life cycle of Ixodes ceylonensis Kohls, 1950, with descriptions of its male, nymph and larva. Journal Parasitology, 52, 1203 - 1209. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3276369