Ixodes eichhorni Nuttall, 1916

Velde, Nancy Vander Velde And Brian Vander & O., P., 2013, Known and potential ticks and tick-borne pathogens of Micronesia, Micronesica 2013 (1), pp. 1-26 : 6

Ixodes eichhorni Nuttall, 1916 = Ixodes mindanensis Kohls, 1950

Another obscure tick, Ixodes eichhorni has been only documented a few times. The Micronesian record is from 1945, from a chicken on Peleliu, Palau was classified by Kohls as I. mindanensis , which previous to that find, had only been reported on an island thrush ( Turdus poliocephalus ) in Mindanao, Philippines. Thereafter, it was determined to be a synonym of I. eichhorni ( Petney & Keirans 1994) . That species had been collected initially from a human in New Guinea and an unspecified kingfisher in the Admiralty Islands ( Nuttall 1916).