Ixodes rubicundus Neumann 1904
Description
197. Ixodes rubicundus Neumann, 1904.
An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae; larvae and nymphs commonly feed on Macroscelidea: Macroscelididae. All parasitic stages have been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Carnivora: Felidae, and Lagomorpha: Leporidae; adults and nymphs have been recovered from Carnivora: Canidae and Hyaenidae; one adult and a few larvae have been found on Passeriformes: Ploceidae; nymphs and larvae alone have been taken from Macroscelidea: Macroscelididae, and Rodentia: Muridae and Nesomyidae; and larvae alone have been found on Carnivora: Herpestidae, Perissodactyla: Equidae, and Passeriformes: Alaudidae. Ixodes rubicundus is a very rare parasite of humans.
M: Neumann (1904)
F: Neumann (1904)
N: Arthur (1965)
L: Arthur (1965)
Redescriptions
M: Dönitz (1910a), Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Arthur (1965)
F: Dönitz (1910a), Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Arthur (1965), Walker A.R. et al. (2003), Horak et al. (2018)
N: none
L: Sénevet and Ripert (1967b), Clifford et al. (1975b)
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Neumann
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Ixodida
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Ixodes
- Species
- rubicundus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ixodes rubicundus Neumann, 1904 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020
References
- Neumann, L. G. (1904) Notes sur les ixodides. II. Archives de Parasitologie, 8, 444 - 464.
- Donitz, W. (1910 a) Die Zecken Sudafrikas. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena, 16, 397 - 494.
- Nuttall, G. H. F. & Warburton, C. (1911) Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part II. The Ixodidae. Section II. Genus I. Ixodes Latreille 1795. Cambridge University Press, London, pp. 133 - 293. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 24075
- Horak, I. G., Heyne, H., Williams, R., Gallivan, G. J., Spickett, A., Bezuidenhout, J. D. & Estrada-Pena, A. (2018) The ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of southern Africa. Springer, Cham, 676 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 70642 - 9
- Senevet, G. & Ripert, C. (1967 b) A propos des larves d' Ixodes pilosus et I. rubicundus. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 42, 123 - 131. https: // doi. org / 10.1051 / parasite / 1967421123
- Clifford, C. M., Theiler, G. & Baker, M. (1975 b) Ixodes (Afrixodes) drakensbergensis n. sp. from domestic and wild animals in Natal, Republic of South Africa. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 42, 33 - 40.