Ixodes signatus, Birula, 1895

Robbins, Richard G., Nava, Santiago, Ronai, Isobel, Chong, Kaylin L. & Guglielmone, Alberto A., 2025, Type specimens of the world’s hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names, Zootaxa 5606 (1), pp. 1-287 : 200

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1
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scientific name	Ixodes signatus
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signatus Birula, 1895 View in CoL , Ixodes

Birula,A. (1895) Ixodidae novi vel parum cogniti Musei Zoologici Academiae Caesareae Scientiarum Petropolitanae. I. Izvestiya Imperatorskoy Akademii Nauk , Series 5, 2 (4) 353–364.

Type depositories: ZIAC: lectotype (female) and paralectotypes (females) ( Filippova 2008), BMNH: a paralectotype (female) ( Keirans & Hillyard (2001, as syntype). MCZ: a syntype (lost) ( Keirans & Clifford 1978)

Type locality: Unalaska Island , Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA

Type host: not stated

Comments: only the female of Ixodes signatus was described by Birula (1895). Therefore, a nymph in the ZIAC named as paralectotype by Filippova (2008), and nymphs named as “types” in Nuttall & Warburton (1911) and Keirans & Clifford (1978) and deposited in the ZSH, do not qualify as belonging to the type series of Ixodes signatus . KLC, IR and RGR visited the MCZ in 2024 and the syntype was not found there.