Ixodes vanidicus Schulze, 1943b

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 : 76

244. Ixodes vanidicus Schulze, 1943b .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Carnivora : Herpestidae ; adults alone have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Carnivora : Canidae , Felidae and Viverridae , and Macroscelidea : Macroscelididae . Ixodes vanidicus is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Schulze (1943b)

F: Schulze (1943b)

N: Schulze (1943b)

L: Schulze (1943b)

Redescriptions

M: Arthur (1965), Keirans et al. (1982), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Arthur (1965), Keirans et al. (1982), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

N: Arthur (1965)

L: Arthur (1965), Sénevet and Ripert (1967a)

Note: see Ixodes oldi for a discussion of the problems involved in morphologically identifying the species constituting the oldi group, to which Ixodes vanidicus belongs.