Ixodes hexagonus Leach, 1815

Fedorov, Denis & Hornok, Sándor, 2024, Checklist of hosts, illustrated geographical range, and ecology of tick species from the genus Ixodes (Acari, Ixodidae) in Russia and other post-Soviet countries, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 255-343 : 255-343

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1201.115467

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11196137

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scientific name

Ixodes hexagonus Leach, 1815
status

 

Ixodes hexagonus Leach, 1815 View in CoL

Ixodes hexagonus Leach, 1815: 397; Morel and Pérez 1973: 275. View in CoL

Ixodes autumnalis Leach: Neumann 1911: 17. View in CoL

Ixodes erinacei Audouin: Neumann 1911: 17. View in CoL

Ixodes auricularis Robineau-Desvoidy View in CoL : Morel and Pérez 1973: 275.

Ixodes sexpunctatus Koch: Neumann 1911: 17. View in CoL

Ixodes vulpis Pagenstecher: Neumann 1911: 17. View in CoL

Ixodes erinaceus Audouin: Neumann 1911: 17. View in CoL

Recorded hosts.

Mammalia: Bos taurus Linnaeus (cattle), Canis familiaris (domestic dog), Erinaceus europaeus (European hedgehog), Felis catus (domestic cat), Lutra lutra (Linnaeus) (Eurasian otter), Meles meles (Eurasian badger), Mustela erminea (stoat), Mustela nivalis (least weasel), Mustela putorius Linnaeus (European polecat), Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus) (European rabbit), Ovis aries (sheep), Rattus norvegicus (brown rat), Vulpes vulpes (red fox) ( Filippova 1977).

Aves: Turdus merula (common blackbird) ( Filippova 1977).

Recorded locations

(Fig. 25 View Figure 25 ). Ukraine: outskirts of Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi Oblast ( Levytska et al. 2021), the North-Western seacoast of the Black Sea ( Rusev 2009), Zakarpattia Oblast (the rural locality Malyi Berezny) ( Filippova 1961).

Ecology and other information.

Ixodes hexagonus is a typical nidicolous parasite of carnivores and hedgehogs. It has certain morphological similarities to I. crenulatus and I. kaiseri and has common sympatric zones with this species along its range ( Filippova 1999). Ukraine is the only country of the former Soviet Union, on the territory of which this European species is present in the tick fauna ( Filippova 1977). In general I. hexagonus was detected quite rarely in Ukraine, and almost always in the west of Ukraine and mainly from hedgehogs ( Kolonin 2009). Akimov and Nebogatkin (2016) assumed that it can be found in the vicinity of Kyiv, and eventually it was confirmed by Levytska et al. (2021). Rare occasional human bites have been recorded ( Rosický and Weiser 1952; Arthur 1963; Bursali et al. 2012).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Ixodes

Loc

Ixodes hexagonus Leach, 1815

Fedorov, Denis & Hornok, Sándor 2024
2024
Loc

Ixodes autumnalis

Neumann LG 1911: 17
Ixodes autumnalis Leach: Neumann 1911: 17 .
1911
Loc

Ixodes erinacei

Neumann LG 1911: 17
Ixodes erinacei Audouin: Neumann 1911: 17 .
1911
Loc

Ixodes sexpunctatus

Neumann LG 1911: 17
Ixodes sexpunctatus Koch: Neumann 1911: 17 .
1911
Loc

Ixodes vulpis

Neumann LG 1911: 17
Ixodes vulpis Pagenstecher: Neumann 1911: 17 .
1911
Loc

Ixodes erinaceus

Neumann LG 1911: 17
Ixodes erinaceus Audouin: Neumann 1911: 17 .
1911
Loc

Ixodes hexagonus

Leach WE 1815: 397
1815
Loc

Ixodes auricularis

Ixodes auricularis Robineau-Desvoidy : Morel and Pérez 1973: 275.