Ixodes cavipalpus Nuttall and Warburton, 1908

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 : 18

42. Ixodes cavipalpus Nuttall and Warburton, 1908 .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae . All parasitic stages occur on Bovidae ; adults alone have occasionally been collected from other Mammalia (several orders) (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Horak et al. 2018). Ixodes cavipalpus is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1908)

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1908)

N: undescribed

L: Arthur (1965)

Redescriptions

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Sousa Dias (1950), Hoogstraal (1956a), Artthur (1965), Elbl and Anastos (1966b), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1911), Sousa Dias (1950), Hoogstraal (1956a), Artthur (1965), Elbl and Anastos (1966b), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Horak et al. (2018)

L: Clifford et al. (1975b)

Note: Nuttall and Warburton (1911) constructed an identification key where the male of Ixodes cavipalpus is said to have no spurs on coxa I, but it is described as having one spur in the text, and the latter description is the correct one. Guglielmone et al. (2014) state that records of Ixodes cavipalpus based on specimens collected outside the Afrotropical Region require confirmation.