Ixodes humanus, Koch, 1844
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8263FE48-FFA2-4272-FF23-F9FCFC86F811 |
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Plazi |
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Ixodes humanus |
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Type host: hill pony humanus Koch, 1844 , Ixodes
Koch, C.L. (1844) Systematische Übersicht über die Ordnung der Zecken. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 10, 217– 239.
Type depository: ZMB: holotype (nymph) ( Neumann 1899, Guglielmone et al. 2021)
Type locality: Pará , Brazil
Type host: human
Current status: a name incertae sedis, as discussed in Guglielmone et al. (2021), but previously recognized as a synonym of Amblyomma dissimile .
Comments: Koch (1844) classified as a female the specimen of Ixodes humanus , as did Moritz & Fischer (1981) in their catalog of types in the ZMB, but the specimen is a nymph.
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