Ixodes pilosus Koch, 1844a

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 : 57

182. Ixodes pilosus Koch, 1844a .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , but they have also been found on Mammalia (several orders). Ixodes pilosus is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1899)

F: Koch (1844a)

N: Nuttall and Warburton (1911)

L: Nuttall and Warburton (1911)

Redescriptions

M: Neumann (1899, 1911a), Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Arthur (1965)

F: Koch (1847), Dönitz (1910a), Neumann (1911a) , Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Arthur (1965), Walker A.R. et al. (2003), Horak et al. (2018, as Ixodes pilosus group; see note below)

N: Bedford (1934), Arthur (1965, 1975b)

L: Arthur (1965, 1975a), Sénevet and Ripert (1967b), Clifford et al. (1975b)

Note: McKay (1994) believes that there are three species in the Ixodes pilosus complex, an opinion that is supported by Horak et al. (2018), who also depicted two females with morphological differences, but no new species were proposed.