Ixodes tanuki Saito, 1964

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 : 70-71

227. Ixodes tanuki Saito, 1964 .

An Oriental and Palearctic species whose adults and nymphs have been found on Carnivora : Canidae and Mustelidae ; adults alone have been collected from Carnivora : Felidae and Procyonidae ; immature stages have been recovered from Artiodactyla : Cervidae , and Rodentia : Cricetidae and Muridae ( Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Torii et al. 2019). Ixodes tanuki is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Saito (1964)

F: Saito (1964)

N: Fujita and Takada (1979)

L: Fujita and Takada (2007)

Redescriptions

M: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Clifford et al. (1975a), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Teng (1982a), Teng and Jiang (1991), Lee et al. (1997), Yamauchi and Takada (2015); see note below

F: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Clifford et al. (1975a), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Teng (1982a), Teng and Jiang (1991), Lee et al. (1997), Yamauchi and Takada (2015); see note below

N: Fujita and Takada (2007)

L: none

Note: Clifford et al. (1975a) state that their figures of the male and female of Ixodes tanuki show critical morphological features not depicted in the descriptions of Saito (1964) or the redescriptions of Yamaguti et al. (1971).