Host(s)
Seabirds: Aptenodytes patagonicus, Eudyptes robustus, Megadyptes antipodes, Eudyptula minor, Diomedea exulans, Diomedea antipodensis antipodensis, Thalassarche melanophris, Pterodroma macroptera gouldi, Pachyptila turtur, Pachyptila vittata, Pachyptila crassirostris, Procellaria cinerea, Puffinus griseus, Puffinus huttoni, Puffinus bulleri, Puffinus carneipes, Pelecanoides urinatrix subspecies, Pelecanoides urinatrix chathamensis, Pelagodroma marina maoriana, Fregetta tropica, Catharacta antarctica lonnbergi, Larus dominicanus dominicanus, Sterna vittata bethunei.
Land birds: Gallirallus australis scotti, Gallirallus australis australis, Coenocorypha aucklandica iredalei, Coenocorypha aucklandica meinertzhagenae, Coenocorypha aucklandica aucklandica, Strigops habroptilus, Nestor meridionalis meridionalis, Philesturnus carunculatus carunculatus.
Mammal: Phocarctos hookeri.
Distribution
World: New Zealand (see introductory discussion).
New Zealand: North and South Islands, Chatham, Antipodes, Auckland and Macquarie Islands.
References: Nuttall (1916); Dumbleton (1953, 1961, 1963, 1973); Roberts (1970, as “ Ixodes auritulus group” or “complex”); Heath (1977, 2010a, as “ Ixodes auritulus group”); Bishop & Heath (1998); Gordon (2010); Cane (2011, last updated 2009).