Ixodes cornuatus Roberts, 1960

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 : 22

56. Ixodes cornuatus Roberts, 1960 .

An Australasian species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Carnivora : Canidae , and Rodentia : Muridae ; adults alone have been collected from Carnivora : Felidae , Diprotodontia : Phascolarctidae and Vombatidae , and Casuariiformes: Casuariidae ; immature stages have been recovered from Diprotodontia : Macropodidae , Phalangeridae and Potoroidae , and Passeriformes : Acanthizidae , Cracticidae and Pachycephalidae , and unknown stages have been found on Perissodactyla : Equidae ( Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Barker & Barker 2020). Ixodes cornuatus is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Roberts (1960)

F: Roberts (1960)

N: undescribed

L: Kemp (1980)

Redescriptions

M: Roberts (1970), Jackson et al. (2002), Barker and Walker (2014), Barker et al. (2014)

F: Roberts (1970), Jackson et al. (2002), Barker and Walker (2014), Barker et al. (2014), Kwak (2017)

L: Jackson et al. (2002)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) and Kolonin (2009) state that the larva of Ixodes cornuatus is undescribed; the latter author also doubts the validity of Ixodes cornuatus , perhaps following Roberts (1970), who stated that Ixodes cornuatus may be a subspecies of Ixodes holocyclus .