Ixodes luciae Sénevet, 1940

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 : 43-44

131. Ixodes luciae Sénevet, 1940 .

A Neotropical species whose adults are usually found on Didelphimorphia : Didelphidae ; common hosts for larvae and nymphs are Didelphidae , and Rodentia : Cricetidae . Adults alone have been collected from Carnivora : Canidae , and Rodentia : Cuniculidae ; nymphs have been recovered from Artiodactyla : Cervidae , while larvae have been taken from Rodentia : Echimyidae , and Soricomorpha : Soricidae . There are no bona fide records of Ixodes luciae causing human parasitism.

M: Cooley and Kohls (1945)

F: Nuttall (1910), under the name Ixodes loricatus spinosus ; see note below

N: Onofrio et al. (2010)

L: Onofrio et al. (2010)

Redescriptions

M: Floch and Fauran (1958), Aragão and Fonseca (1961a), Onofrio et al. (2006 a, 2009, 2010), Nava et al. (2017), Bermúdez et al. (2018)

F: Sénevet (1940), Cooley and Kohls (1945), Floch and Fauran (1958), Aragão and Fonseca (1961a), Onofrio et al. (2006 a, 2009, 2010), Nava et al. (2017), Bermúdez et al. (2018)

N: Nava et al. (2017)

L: none

Note: the name Ixodes luciae is inferred as a new name for Ixodes loricatus spinosus , preoccupied by Ixodes spinosus in Keirans and Hillyard (2001) . However, it seems that Sénevet (1940) overlooked the description of the female of Ixodes loricatus spinosus in Nuttall (1910) when describing Ixodes luciae , because Nuttall’s study is ignored in Sénevet’s paper. Ixodes loricatus spinosus is a synonym of Ixodes luciae , and is replaced by Ixodes loricatus vogelsangi in Santos Dias (1954c) , but the name Ixodes luciae nonetheless prevails.