255. Ixodes zairensis Keirans, Clifford and Walker, 1982.

An Afrotropical species known only to parasitize Soricomorpha: Soricidae.

M: unknown

F: Keirans et al. (1982)

N: Keirans et al. (1982)

L: unknown

Redescriptions

F: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

N: none

Note: see Ixodes oldi for a discussion of the problems involved in morphologically identifying the species constituting the Ixodes oldi group, to which Ixodes zairensis belongs.