Ixodes berlesei Birula, 1895

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 : 14

29. Ixodes berlesei Birula, 1895 .

A Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Caprimulgiformes: Apodidae , and Passeriformes : Corvidae and Muscicapidae ; adults and larvae have been collected from Passeriformes : Cariliidae; adults alone have been recovered from Passeriformes : Turdidae ; immature stages have been found on Aves (several orders) (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Tsapko 2017). Records of Ixodes berlesei on “livestock” and “wild mammals” in Zhang, Y. et al. (2019) are probably typographical errors. There are no records of Ixodes berlesei causing human parasitism.

M: unknown

F: Birula (1895)

N: Filippova (1958)

L: Filippova (1958)

Redescriptions

F: Olenev (1931a), Pomerantzev (1950), Filippova (1977), Yu et al. (1997); see note below

N: Clifford et al. (1975a), Filippova (1977)

L: Sénevet and Ripert (1967a), Clifford et al. (1975a), Filippova (1977); see note below

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) state that the male of Ixodes berlesei (under the name Scaphixodes berlesei ) has been described, but Guglielmone et al. (2014) were unable to find this description. Pomerantzev (1950) provided a brief description of the male of Ixodes berlesei , because he believed that Ixodes caledonicus was a synonym of Ixodes berlesei ; consequently, he treated the male of Ixodes caledonicus in Nuttall (1911) as Ixodes berlesei . In light of this, the opinion of Camicas et al. (1998) is controversial because they consider both species valid members of the genus Scaphixodes . There are morphological differences in the female prosoma of Ixodes berlesei as redescribed by Yu et al. (1997) in comparison with descriptions of the same structure provided by other workers above. Clifford et al. (1975a) note that the body of the larva that they redescribed has more setae than that of the specimen redescribed by Filippova (1958). The description of Ixodes berlesei in Emchuk (1960) is not recognized in Filippova (1977), who concluded that Emchuk redescribed Ixodes caledonicus .