Ixodes vanidicus Schulze, 1943b

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, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 76

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scientific name	Ixodes vanidicus Schulze, 1943b
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244. Ixodes vanidicus Schulze, 1943b View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Carnivora : Herpestidae ; adults alone have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Carnivora : Canidae , Felidae and Viverridae , and Macroscelidea : Macroscelididae . Ixodes vanidicus is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Schulze (1943b)

F: Schulze (1943b)

N: Schulze (1943b)

L: Schulze (1943b)

Redescriptions

M: Arthur (1965), Keirans et al. (1982), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Arthur (1965), Keirans et al. (1982), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

N: Arthur (1965)

L: Arthur (1965), Sénevet and Ripert (1967a)

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

Keirans, J. E., Clifford, C. M. & Walker, J. B. (1982) The Ixodes (Afroixodes) oldi group (Acari: Ixodidae) from sub-Saharan Africa with descriptions of five new species. Journal of Medical Entomology, 19, 309 - 329. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 19.3.309

Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.

Schulze, P. (1943 b) Uber zwei bemerkenswerte afrikanische Schwesterarten von Ixodes: I. rasus Neum. und vanidicus n. sp. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 142, 121 - 141.

Senevet, G. & Ripert, C. (1967 a) Les larves des especes du genre Ixodes. Essai de revue d'ensemble. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 42, 79 - 121. https: // doi. org / 10.1051 / parasite / 1967421079