Ixodes bequaerti Cooley and Kohls, 1945

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 : 14

28. Ixodes bequaerti Cooley and Kohls, 1945 .

A Neotropical species whose females have been found on Passeriformes : Turdidae and Thraupidae , and Trogoniformes : Trogonidae (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Bermúdez et al. 2018). There are no records of Ixodes bequaerti causing human parasitism.

M: unknown

F: Cooley and Kohls (1945)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

F: Guzmán-Cornejo and Robbins (2010), Bermúdez et al. (2018)

Note: Clifford et al. (1973) and Camicas et al. (1998) list Ixodes bequaerti as a Nearctic species, but this is in error ( Guglielmone et al. 2003).