Ixodes siamensis Kitaoka and Suzuki, 1983

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 : 65

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.4582857
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4-FFA9-FF82-FF07-FB9967B3CEDA
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Ixodes siamensis Kitaoka and Suzuki, 1983
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208. Ixodes siamensis Kitaoka and Suzuki, 1983 View in CoL .

An Oriental species whose larvae have been found on Rodentia : Muridae , and Soricomorpha : Soricidae . There are no records of Ixodes siamensis causing human parasitism.

M: unknown

F: unknown

N: unknown

L: Kitaoka and Suzuki (1983)

Redescriptions: none

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) and Kolonin (2009) regard Ixodes siamensis as a synonym of Ixodes ovatus but provide no evidence to support this view. Ixodes siamensis is treated as provisionally valid in Guglielmone et al. (2009, 2014, 2015), Guglielmone and Nava (2014) and here.