Ixodes monospinosus Saito, 1967

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 : 47

145. Ixodes monospinosus Saito, 1967 .

A Palearctic species whose females have been found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Cervidae , and Carnivora : Ursidae ; larvae and nymphs have been collected from Rodentia : Muridae , and Soricomorpha : Talpidae , and larvae alone have been recovered from Rodentia : Cricetidae . Ixodes monospinosus is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: unknown

F: Saito (1967)

N: Takada and Yamaguchi (1974), under the provisional name Ixodes sp. N 1, as explained in Guglielmone et al. (2014) based on information provided by Professor Takeo Yamauchi

L: Fujita and Takada (1979), wrongly cited as Takada and Fujita (1978) in Guglielmone et al. (2014) Redescriptions

F: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Yamauchi and Takada (2015)

N: Fujita and Takada (2007)

L: Fujita and Takada (2007)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) state that the male of Ixodes monospinosus has been described, while the nymph and larva have not. We have found no description of the male, and the references above contain descriptions of the larva and nymph.