Ixodes columnae Takada and Fujita, 1992

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 : 20

48. Ixodes columnae Takada and Fujita, 1992 .

A Palearctic species (see note below), all of whose known parasitic stages have been found on Rodentia : Sciuridae ; immature stages have been collected from Rodentia : Cricetidae and Muridae , Galliformes : Phasianidae , Passeriformes (several families), and Piciformes : Picidae . Ixodes columnae is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: unknown

F: Takada and Fujita (1992)

N: Takada and Fujita (1978), under the provisional name Ixodes sp. N 2, as explained in Takada and Fujita (1992) L: Takada and Fujita (1978), under the provisional name Ixodes sp. L1, as explained in Takada and Fujita (1992) Redescriptions

F: none

N: Takada and Fujita (1992), Fujita and Takada (2007)

L: Takada and Fujita (1992), Fujita and Takada (2007)

Note: Guglielmone and Robbins (2018) state that if Taiwanese records in Kuo et al. (2017) are confirmed, Ixodes columnae will be an Oriental and Palearctic species.