Ixodes nipponensis Kitaoka & Saito, 1967

Recorded hosts.

Mammalia: Apodemus agrarius (striped field mouse), Craseomys rufocanus (grey red-backed vole), Microtus fortis (Büchner) (reed vole), Myodes rutilus (northern red-backed vole) (Filippova 1977).

Recorded locations

(Fig. 11). Russia: Primorsky Krai – the Lake Khasan, the Poyma River, the Partizansky District, outskirts of urban localities Posyet, Kraskino, Slavyanka and cities Vladivostok and Nakhodka, near the village Rechitsa (Filippova 1969; Filippova and Belyaev 1970; Allenov et al. 2015).

Ecology and other information.

Ixodes nipponensis is a tick species found in Russia in the south and south-west of the Primorsky Krai and also in the Korean peninsula and Japan (Filippova 1977). In Russia it was reported mainly from murine rodents, although in the Republic of Korea it was also observed on lizards (Kim et al. 2018) and cattle, goats, dogs, horses, and birds in Japan (Kitaoka and Saito 1967; Yamaguti et al. 1971).

Multiple cases of parasitism on humans have been recorded (Nakatsukase and Hatsushika 1985; Paik et al. 1989; Cho et al. 1995; Chu et al. 1997; Ryu et al. 1998; Ko et al. 2002).