Ixodes longiscutatus Boero, 1944

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 : 42-43

128. Ixodes longiscutatus Boero, 1944 .

A Neotropical species whose larvae and nymphs are usually found on Rodentia : Caviidae , but all known parasitic stages have been recovered from Caviidae . Females alone have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , and Perissodactyla : Equidae . There are no records of Ixodes longiscutatus causing human parasitism.

M: unknown

F: Boero (1944), under the name Ixodes longiscutatum , and amended in Camicas et al. (1998)

N: Kohls and Clifford (1967a), under the name Ixodes uruguayensis , a synonym of Ixodes longiscutatus as explained in Venzal et al. (2001)

L: Kohls and Clifford (1967a), under the name Ixodes uruguayensis

Redescriptions

F: Boero (1957), under the name Ixodes longiscutatum, Nava et al. (2017)

N: Nava et al. (2017)

L: none

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) erroneously list the male of Ixodes longiscutatus as described ( Venzal et al. 2008).