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Ixodes sculptus Neumann

Description

Ixodes sculptus Neumann

Type host: unknown.

Deposition, host records, and locality: HWML 92017, G. lutescens /Ackley 2013; HWML 92031, 92036, 101735, 101745, and 101747, G. lutescens /Ackley 2013; HWML 92038 and 92039, G. lutescens / Ackley 2013; HWML 92053, G. lutescens / Ackley 2013.

Remarks: This tick is most commonly associated with burrowing mammals, especially ground squirrels, and their predators throughout the central and western United States and Canada (Miller and Ward 1960; Spicka 1981; Brillhart et al. 1994; Salkeld et al. 2006). Keirans and Clifford (1978) note its presence in Nebraska, and at Ackley Valley a single adult female and 45 larvae were collected from four G. lutescens. Salkeld et al. 2006 examined the host associations of I. sculptus among the small mammals of a prairie community in northern Colorado, about 200 miles west of CPBS. Although they report I. sculptus from four species of semi-fossorial rodents, they were collecting with Sherman live traps and did not sample gophers. However, Miller and Ward (1960) collected this tick from both Geomys and Thomomys in Colorado. Salkeld et al. 2006 summarized the published records of I. sculptus, revealing a very wide host range, including humans and their domestic animals, rodents, lagomorphs, and many carnivores. Because of its broad host-range, the potential role of I. sculptus as a vector of enzootic diseases is very high (Salkeld et al. 2006). The type host and original locality of this species are not known (Keirans and Clifford 1978).

Notes

Published as part of Howell, Lindsey, Jelden, Katelyn, Rácz, Elizabeth, Gardner, Scott L. & Gettinger, Donald, 2016, Arthropods infesting small mammals (Insectivora and Rodentia) near Cedar Point Biological Station in southwestern Nebraska, pp. 1-16 in Insecta Mundi 2016 (478) on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5170591

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
HWML
Material sample ID
HWML 92017 , HWML 92031, 92036, 101735, 101745 , HWML 92038 , HWML 92053
Scientific name authorship
Neumann
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Ixodida
Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Ixodes
Species
sculptus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype

References

  • Miller, R. S., and R. A. Ward. 1960. Ectoparasites of pocket gophers from Colorado. American Midland Naturalist 64: 382 - 391.
  • Spicka, E. J. 1981. Ectoparasites and arthropod associates on two subspecies of plains pocket gophers: Geomys bursarius illinoensis and Geomys bursarius missouriensis. Canadian Journal of Zoology 59: 1903 - 1908.
  • Brillhart, D. B., L. B. Fox, and S. J. Upton. 1994. Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from small and medium-sized Kansas mammals. Journal of Medical Entomology 31: 500 - 504.
  • Salkeld, D. J., R. J. Eisen, M. F. Antolin, P. Stapp, and L. Eisen. 2006. Host usage and seasonal activity patterns of Ixodes kingi and I. sculptus (Acari: Ixodidae) nymphs in a Colorado prairie landscape, with a summary of published North American host records for all life stages. Journal of Vector Ecology 31: 168 - 180.
  • Keirans, J. E., and C. M. Clifford. 1978. The genus Ixodes in the United States: a scanning electron microscope study and key to the adults. Journal of Medical Entomology Supplement 2: 1 - 149.