Ixodes auritulus Neumann, 1904

Benavides-Montaño, Javier Antonio, Betancourt-Echeverri, Jesus Antonio, Valencia, Gustavo López & Mesa-Cobo, Nora Cristina, 2022, A review of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Colombia: The risk of tick-borne diseases, Persian Journal of Acarology 11 (3), pp. 397-437 : 416

publication ID

2251-8169

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Ixodes auritulus Neumann, 1904
status

 

Ixodes auritulus Neumann, 1904 View in CoL

This tick is distributed in Australian, Ethiopian, Nearctic and Neotropical zoogeographic regions, with a variable and discontinuous distribution in countries such as Guatemala, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay ( Barros-Battesti et al. 2006; Bermudez et al. 2015b). Normally, it infests Seiurus aurocapillus birds ( Parulidae ), Catharus gracilirostris , Turdus nigrescens , T. plebejus (Turdidae) , Thryorchilus browni (Troglodytidae) , Junco vulcani (Emberizidae) and Oreophasis derbianus (Cracidae) . All the stages have been described in the MNHN (Barros-Batesti et al. 2006; Bermudez et al. 2015a). This tick inhabits regions with low temperatures, such as highlands in equatorial mountains ( Bermudez et al. 2015b).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Ixodes

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