Ixodes elongatus Bedford, 1929

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 : 27-28

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.4580521
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4-FFF3-FFD9-FF07-F94D645FCA06
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Ixodes elongatus Bedford, 1929
status

Treatment

78. Ixodes elongatus Bedford, 1929 View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species whose females and the undescribed larva and nymph have been found on Macroscelidea : Macroscelididae (provisional diagnosis of nymphs and larvae); females alone have been collected from Rodentia : Muridae , and Soricomorpha : Soricidae . There are no records of Ixodes elongatus causing human parasitism.

M: unknown; see note below

F: Bedford (1929)

N: undescribed

L: undescribed

Redescription

F: Arthur (1959, 1965)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) listed the male of Ixodes elongatus as described, but no description of this stage has been found.