Ixodes brewsterae Keirans, Clifford and Walker, 1982

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 : 15

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4576084

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4-FFE7-FFCC-FF07-F9916645CC9A

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Ixodes brewsterae Keirans, Clifford and Walker, 1982
status

 

33. Ixodes brewsterae Keirans, Clifford and Walker, 1982 View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Carnivora : Herpestidae , with a single record from Carnivora : Felidae . There are no records of Ixodes brewsterae causing human parasitism.

M: Keirans et al. (1982)

F: Keirans et al. (1982)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Ixodes

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