Ixodes myrmecobii Roberts, 1962b

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 : 49

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4579852
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scientific name	Ixodes myrmecobii Roberts, 1962b
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155. Ixodes myrmecobii Roberts, 1962b View in CoL .

An Australasian species whose adults and nymphs have been found on Diprotodontia : Potoroidae and Tarsipedidae ; adults alone have been collected from Carnivora : Canidae and Felidae , Dasyuromorphia : Myrmecobiidae , Diprotodontia : Macropodidae , Perissodactyla : Equidae , and Rodentia : Muridae ; nymphs alone have been recovered from Diprotodontia : Phalangeridae , and Passeriformes : Meliphagidae . Ixodes myrmecobii is a rare parasite of humans.

M: Kwak et al. (2017)

F: Roberts (1962b)

N: Kwak et al. (2017)

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: none

F: Roberts (1970), Kwak et al. (2017)

N: none

Kwak, M. L., Ash, A. & Elliot, A. (2017) Redescription of the numbat tick Ixodes (Sternalixodes) myrmecobii Roberts, 1962 (Acari: Ixodidae) with descriptions of the male and nymph, and new host records. Zootaxa, 4272 (1), 40 - 56. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4272.1.2

Roberts, F. H. S. (1962 b) Ixodes (Sternalixodes) myrmecobii sp. n. from the numbat, Myrmecobius fasciatus fasciatus Waterhouse, in Western Australia (Ixodidae: Acarina). Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland, 1, 42 - 43. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1440 - 6055.1962. tb 00169. x

Roberts, F. H. S. (1970) Australian ticks. CSIRO, Melbourne, 267 pp.