Ixodes unicavatus Neumann, 1908b

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 : 75

242. Ixodes unicavatus Neumann, 1908b .

A Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Suliformes : Phalacrocoracidae , while larvae alone have been collected from Passeriformes : Motacillidae . There are no records of Ixodes unicavatus causing human parasitism.

M: Guiguen and Beaucournu (1984)

F: Neumann (1908b)

N: Neumann (1908b)

L: Nuttall and Warburton (1911)

Redescriptions

M: Hillyard (1996); see note below

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Emchuk (1960), Arthur (1963), Filippova (1977) Hillyard (1996); see note below

N: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Emchuk (1960), Arthur (1963), Filippova (1977)

L: Emchuk (1960), Arthur (1963), Sénevet and Ripert (1967a), Filippova (1977), Márquez et al. (1992); see note below

Note: Estrada-Peña et al. (2017) found no reliable morphological characters for separating the male, female and larva of Ixodes unicavatus from similar species in the genus occurring in Europe and North Africa.