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Ixodes lemuris Arthur 1958
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Description
125. Ixodes lemuris Arthur, 1958b, but see below.
An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Primates: Cheirogaleidae; adult ticks alone have been collected from Primates: Lemuridae, and Rodentia: Muridae. There are no records of Ixodes lemuris causing human parasitism.
M: Blanco et al. (2013)
F: Arthur (1958b)
N: Blanco et al. (2013)
L: Blanco et al. (2013)
Redescriptions
M: none
F: Arthur (1965), Uilenberg et al. (1979), Blanco et al. (2013)
N: none
L: none
Note: Guglielmone et al. (2014) listed Ixodes lemuris as described in 1957, but Doss and Anastos (1977) stated that the description was published in 1958.
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 41-42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Arthur
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Ixodida
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Ixodes
- Species
- lemuris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ixodes lemuris Arthur, 1958 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020
References
- Arthur, D. R. (1958 b) The Ixodes schillingsi group: ticks of Africa and Madagascar, parasitic on primates, with descriptions of two new species (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae). Parasitology, 47, 544 - 559. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000022174
- Blanco, M. B., Elfawal, M. A., Durden, L. A., Beati, L., Xu, G., Godfrey, L. R. & Rich, S. M. (2013) Genetic diversity of ixodid ticks parasitizing eastern mouse and dwarf lemurs in Madagascar, with descriptions of the larva, nymph and male of Ixodes lemuris (Acari: Ixodidae). Journal of Parasitology, 90, 11 - 18. https: // doi. org / 10.1645 / GE- 3183.1
- Uilenberg, G., Hoogstraal. H. & Klein, J. M. (1979) Les tiques (Ixodoidea) de Madagascar et leur role vecteur. Archives de l'Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Numero Special, 153 pp.
- Doss, M. A. & Anastos, G. (1977) Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology. Special publication Nº. 3. Ticks and tickborne diseases. III. Checklist of families, genera, species and subspecies of ticks. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 97 pp.