Ixodes lewisi Arthur, 1965
|
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.4576399 |
|
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4-FFC0-FFEB-FF07-FE81645CC9B7 |
|
treatment provided by |
Plazi |
|
scientific name |
Ixodes lewisi Arthur, 1965 |
| status |
|
126. Ixodes lewisi Arthur, 1965 View in CoL .
An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae ; the undescribed larva and nymph have also been collected from Bovidae ; adults alone have been recovered from Artiodactyla : Giraffidae , Carnivora : Canidae and Felidae , and Hyracoidea : Procaviidae . There are no records of Ixodes lewisi causing human parasitism.
M: Arthur (1965)
F: Arthur (1965)
N: undescribed; see note below
L: undescribed
Redescriptions
M: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)
F: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)
Note: Camicas et al. (1998) state that the nymph of Ixodes lewisi is described, but no formal description of this stage exists.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.