Ixodes hearlei Gregson, 1941

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 : 33

96. Ixodes hearlei Gregson, 1941 .

A Nearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Rodentia : Sciuridae ; adults and nymphs have been recovered from Carnivora : Mephitidae ; and unknown tick stages have been collected from Carnivora : Procyonidae (Guglielmone et al. 2014, López-Pérez et al. 2019). There are no records of Ixodes hearlei causing human parasitism.

M: Gregson (1941)

F: Gregson (1941)

N: Gregson (1941)

L: Gregson (1941)

Redescriptions

M: Cooley and Kohls (1945), Gregson (1956), Keirans and Clifford (1978), Furman and Loomis (1984), Lindquist et al. (2016)

F: Cooley and Kohls (1945), Gregson (1956), Keirans and Clifford (1978), Furman and Loomis (1984), Lindquist et al. (2016)

N: Cooley and Kohls (1945), Gregson (1956), Furman and Loomis (1984), Durden and Keirans (1996), Lindquist et al. (2016)

L: Kleinjan and Lane (2008), Lindquist et al. (2016)

Note: Gregson (1941) states that prior to his description of Ixodes hearlei this tick was confused with Ixodes marxi by Hearle (1938). Keirans and Clifford (1978), Furman and Loomis (1984), Camicas et al. (1998) and Guglielmone et al. (2014) state that the larva of Ixodes hearlei is undescribed, but it was described in Gregson (1941, page 223, Plate XV, figure 12), and no writer has disputed Gregson’s description. Surprisingly, Lindquist et al. (2016) stated that Gregson (1941) described the male, female and nymph but not the larva of Ixodes hearlei , while using Gregson’s (1941) figures to redescribe the larva.