Ixodes megathyreus, Leach, 1815
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0851EDA-FE18-4F87-9245-B108786B22F4 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8263FE48-FF4F-429E-FF23-F928FD8DFEB5 |
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Plazi |
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Ixodes megathyreus |
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Type host: the holotype specimen was collected by flagging megathyreus Leach, 1815 View in CoL , Ixodes
Leach, W.E. (1815) A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta: with the distribution of the genera composing three of these classes into orders, and descriptions of several new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London, 11, 306–400.
Type depository: BMNH: a syntype (a male)
Type locality: not stated
Type host: Erinaceus europaeus
Current status: a synonym of Ixodes ricinus ( Keirans & Hillyard 2001) .
Comments: Ixodes megathyreus was described from an unknown number of specimens, but just one male is deposited in the BMNH ( Keirans & Hillyard 2001) .
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