Ixodes nipponensis Kitaoka and Saito, 1967

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 : 51

163. Ixodes nipponensis Kitaoka and Saito, 1967 .

An Oriental and Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Carnivora : Canidae ; adults and nymphs have been found on Carnivora : Felidae and Mustelidae ; adults and larvae have been collected from Lagomorpha : Leporidae . Adults alone have been taken from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Cervidae and Suidae , and Carnivora : Ursidae ; immature stages alone have been recovered from Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae , Perissodactyla : Equidae , Rodentia : Cricetidae , Muridae and Sciuridae ; Soricomorpha : Soricidae and Talpidae , Squamata : Lacertidae and Scincidae , and Passeriformes (several families) ( Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Chae et al. 2019, Lee et al. 2019, Saleh et al. 2019). Ixodes nipponensis is a frequent parasite of humans.

M: Kitaoka and Saito (1967)

N: Kitaoka and Saito (1967)

N: Kitaoka and Saito (1967)

L: Kitaoka and Saito (1967)

Redescriptions

M: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Filippova (1977), Yamaguti (1981), Yamauchi and Takada (2015)

F: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Filippova (1977), Yamaguti (1981), Yamauchi and Takada (2015)

N: Filippova (1969, 1977), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Fujita and Takada (2007), Ra et al. (2011)

L: Filippova (1969, 1977), Snow and Arthur (1970), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Fujita and Takada (2007), Ra et al. (2011)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) list the nymph of Ixodes nipponensis as undescribed, but this stage was described in Kitaoka and Saito (1967).