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Ixodes gregsoni Lindquist, Wu and Redner 1999

Description

94. Ixodes gregsoni Lindquist, Wu and Redner, 1999.

A Nearctic species, all of whose known parasitic stages are usually found on Carnivora: Mustelidae; female ticks have also been collected from Carnivora: Felidae. There are no records of Ixodes gregsoni causing human parasitism.

M: unknown; see note below

F: Lindquist et al. (1999)

N: Lindquist et al. (1999)

L: Lindquist et al. (1999)

Redescriptions

F: Lindquist et al. (2016)

N: Lindquist et al. (2016)

L: Lindquist et al. (2016)

Note: Guglielmone et al. (2014) state, erroneously, that the male of Ixodes gregsoni is described.

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 32-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340

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References

  • Lindquist, E. E., Wu, K. W. & Redner, J. H. (1999) A new species of the tick genus Ixodes (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitic on mustelids (Mammalia: Carnivora) in Canada. Canadian Entomologist, 131, 151 - 170. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 131151 - 2
  • Lindquist, E. E., Galloway, T. D., Artsob, H., Lindsay, L. R., Drebot, M., Wood, H. & Robbins, R. G. (2016) A Handbook to the Ticks of Canada (Ixodida: Ixodidae, Argasidae). Biological Survey of Canada Monograph Series No. 7. Biological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, 317 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.3752 / 9780968932186