Ixodes aulacodi Arthur, 1956c

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 : 11

19. Ixodes aulacodi Arthur, 1956c .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages, including the undescribed nymph, are usually found on Rodentia : Thryonomyidae , but they have also been found on Rodentia : Muridae . Adults alone have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Carnivora : Viverridae , and Rodentia : Hystricidae and Nesomyidae ; nymphs have been recovered from Passeriformes : Cisticolidae ; and larvae from Soricomorpha : Soricidae , and Galliformes : Numididae (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Chitimia-Dobler et al. 2016). There are no records of Ixodes aulacodi causing human parasitism.

M: Chitimia-Dobler et al. (2016)

F: Arthur (1956c)

N: undescribed

L: Morel (1966b)

Redescriptions

M: none

F: Arthur (1965), Elbl and Anastos (1966b), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Chitimia-Dobler (2016)

L: none

Note: Kolonin (2009) indicates that the nymph of Ixodes aulacodi has been described, but no formal description of this stage has been published.