Ixodes ricinus, Linnaeus, 1758

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 : 187-188

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-FF7F-42AE-FF23-F894FB30FECD

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Plazi

scientific name

Ixodes ricinus
status

 

ricinus View in CoL gibbosus Nuttall, 1916 , Ixodes

Nuttall, G.H.F. (1916) Notes on ticks. IV. Relating to the genus Ixodes and including a description of three new species and two varieties. Parasitology, 8, 294–337.

Type depository: BMNH: a lectotype (male) and paralectotypes (males and females) were designated by Keirans & Brewster (1981)

Type locality: Izmir, Turkey

Type host: domestic goat

Current status: a synonym of Ixodes gibbosus and its original name, as discussed in Keirans & Brewster (1981). The current status of Ixodes ricinus gibbosus , as Ixodes gibbosus , was established by Schulze (1927).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Ixodes

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