Ixodes nipponensis, Robbins & Nava & Ronai & Chong & Guglielmone, 2025

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 : 151-152

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0851EDA-FE18-4F87-9245-B108786B22F4
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8263FE48-FF53-4282-FF23-F8E0FECAFEB5
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Ixodes nipponensis
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nipponensis Kitaoka & Saito, 1967 View in CoL , Ixodes

Kitaoka, S. & Saito, Y. (1967) Ixodes nipponensis n. sp. (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae ), a common cattle tick in Japan. National Institute of Animal Health Quarterly, 7, 74–83.

Type depositories: NIAH: holotype (male) and paratypes (males, females, nymphs and larvae); MZD: paratypes (males, females, nymphs and larvae) ( Kitaoka & Saito 1967), ZIAC: paratypes (a male, a female, a nymphal pelt and larvae) ( Filippova 2008)

Type locality: Kakudayama , Minamikambara-gun, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Type host: Lepus timidus angustidens

Comments: the specimens used to describe this species were laboratory reared from a female tick collected from the type host.