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Ixodes uriae White 1852

Description

254. Ixodes uriae White, 1852. Circumpolar: Ixodes uriae represents a special zoogeographic case because most populations are confined to several remote islands in the north and south Atlantic Ocean, near the Arctic and Antarctic zones, respectively, and are also found on remote islands in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans close to the Antarctic, as well as on the Antarctic Peninsula itself. Additionally, islands near continental mainlands in the northernmost and southernmost portions of the world, as well as seashores in the northernmost portion of the Northern Hemisphere have been found infested with Ixodes uriae. This peculiar range is related to the breeding sites of the sea birds that are hosts of this tick.

The geographic distribution of Ixodes uriae is peculiar and unrelated to the zoogeographic divisions followed in this study. Heath et al. (2011) also noted that several records of Ixodes uriae in New Zealand are from sea birds examined outside their breeding localities, a situation that surely applies to some collections of this tick from other countries, implicitly distorting the actual range of Ixodes uriae.

In the Southern Hemisphere, Ixodes uriae has been found in: 1) Argentina, 2) Australia, 3) Chile, 4) New Zealand and 5) South Africa; in the Northern Hemisphere it has been collected in: 1) Canada, 2) Denmark, 3) Finland, 4) France, 5) Germany, 6) Great Britain, 7) Greenland, 8) Iceland, 9) Ireland, 10) Japan (except the Ryukyu Islands), 11) Norway, 12) Russia, 13) South Korea, 14) Sweden and 15) USA (Filippova 1977, Keirans & Clifford 1978, Martyn 1988, Jaenson et al. 1994, Kolonin 2009, Heath et al. 2011, Petney et al. 2012, Muñoz-Leal & González-Acuña 2015, Kim et al. 2017, Horak et al. 2018, Guglielmone et al. 2021, Sormunen et al. 2022).

Several records of Ixodes uriae have been published under the names Ceratixodes uriae and Ixodes putus, which are the most common of the several synonyms of Ixodes uriae listed in Guglielmone & Nava (2014).

Ixodes uriae has been treated historically as a name that may include more than one species (Guglielmone et al. 2020).

Notes

Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, pp. 1-274 in Zootaxa 5251 (1) on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7704190

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Ixodes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ixodida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
White
Species
uriae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ixodes uriae White, 1852 sec. Guglielmone, Nava & Robbins, 2023

References

  • White, A. (1852) Insects and Aptera. In: Journal of the voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow Straits, in the years 1850 - 1851, 2 (appendix), 208 - 211.
  • Heath, A. C. G., Palma, R. L., Cane, R. P. & Hardwick, S. (2011) Checklist of New Zealand ticks (Acari: Ixodidae, Argasidae). Zootaxa, 2995, 55 - 63. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2995.1.4
  • Filippova, N. A. (1977) Ixodid ticks (Ixodinae). In: Fauna USSR New Series, 4 (4), Nauka, Moscow, Leningrad, 396 pp. [in Russian]
  • Keirans, J. E. & Clifford, C. M. (1978) The genus Ixodes in the United States: a scanning electron microscope study and key to adults. Journal of Medical Entomology, Supplement 2, 1 - 149. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 15. suppl 2.1
  • Martyn, K. P. (1988) Provisional atlas of the ticks (Ixodoidea) of the British Isles. Biological Records Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK, 62 pp.
  • Jaenson, T. G. T., Talleklint, L., Lundqvist, L., Olsen, B., Chirico, J. & Mejlon, H. (1994) Geographical distribution, host associations, and vector roles of ticks (Acari: Ixodidae, Argasidae) in Sweden. Journal of Medical Entomology, 31, 240 - 256. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 31.2.240
  • Kolonin, G. V. (2009) Fauna of ixodid ticks of the world. https: // archive. is / CtZk. Last accessed February 11, 2022.
  • Petney, T. N., Pfaffle, M. & Skuballa, J. (2012) An annotated checklist of the ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of Germany. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 17, 115 - 170. https: // doi. org / 10.11158 / saa. 17.2.2
  • Munoz-Leal, S. & Gonzalez-Acuna, D. (2015) The tick Ixodes uriae (Acari: Ixodidae): hosts, geographical distribution, and vector roles. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 6, 843 - 868. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ttbdis. 2015.07.014
  • Kim, H. C., Park, C. U., Kim, M., Kim, Y. M., Cho, S. Y., Choi, K. H., Yeo, J., Kwon, Y. S., Johnson, J. L., Monthei, D. R., Chong, S. T., Klein, T. A. & Robbins, R. G. (2017) Ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) collected from nest soil and litter of Synthliboramphus antiquus on Chilbal Island, Jeollanam Province, Republic of Korea, with the first Korean record of Ixodes uriae White. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 22, 962 - 967. https: // doi. org / 10.11158 / saa. 22.7.5
  • Horak, I. G., Heyne, H., Williams, R., Gallivan, G. J., Spickett, A., Bezuidenhout, J. D. & Estrada-Pena, A. (2018) The ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of southern Africa. Springer, Cham, 676 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 70642 - 9
  • Guglielmone, A. A., Nava, S. & Robbins, R. G. (2021) Neotropical hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae). A critical analysis of their taxonomy, distribution, and host relationships. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, 486 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 030 - 72353 - 8
  • Sormunen, J. J., Klemola, T. & Vesterinen E. J. (2022) Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitizing migrating and local breeding birds in Finland. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 86, 145 - 156. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10493 - 021 - 00679 - 3
  • Guglielmone, A. A. & Nava, S. (2014) Names for Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): valid, synonyms, incertae sedis, nomina dubia, nomina nuda, lapsus, incorrect and suppressed names - with notes on confusions and misidentifications. Zootaxa, 3767, 1 - 256. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3767.1.1
  • Guglielmone, A. A., Petney, T. N. & Robbins, R. G. (2020) Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019. Zootaxa, 4871, 1 - 322. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4871.1.1