Ixodes

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Ixodes
Common wood tick (Ixodes ricinus)

Common wood tick ( Ixodes ricinus )

Systematics
Class : Arachnids (arachnida)
Subclass : Mites (acari)
Superordinate : Parasitiformes
Order : Ticks (ixodida)
Family : Shield ticks (ixodidae)
Genre : Ixodes
Scientific name
Ixodes
Latreille , 1795

Ixodes is the most species-rich genus of ticks from the family of the tick family (Ixodidae) and comprises about 250 species . The best-known European representative is the common wood tick ( Ixodes ricinus ). Some species playa major roleas disease vectors ( vectors ).

description

All representatives are three-host, have no eyes and no festoons (' Hinterrandlappchen '). The capitulum ('little head') of female ticks is significantly longer than that of male.

species

The genus includes the following species:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John L. Capinera: Encyclopedia of Entomology, Volume 4 . Springer Science & Business Media, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4020-6242-1 , p. 3788 .
  2. ↑ Jim Amrine: Catalog of the Acari: Ixodidae CLKoch, 1844. Texas A&M University , archived from the original on November 16, 2004 ; Retrieved December 4, 2013 .
  3. ↑ GM Kohls: A new sea bird tick, Ixodes amersoni, from Phoenix Island (Acarina: Ixodidae) . In: J. Med. Entomol. . 3, No. 1, April 1966, ISSN 0022-2585 , pp. 38-40. PMID 5941563 .  
  4. ↑ Sándor Hornok, Jenő Kontschán, Dávid Kováts, Richárd Kovács, Dorottya Angyal, Tamás Görföl, Zsolt Polacsek, Zsuzsa Kalmár, Andrei D Mihalca: Bat ticks revisited: Ixodes ariadnae sp. nov. and allopatric genotypes of I. vespertilionis in caves of Hungary . In: Parasites & Vectors . tape 7 , 2014, 202, doi : 10.1186 / 1756-3305-7-202 .
  5. ↑ Sándor Hornok, Tamás Görföl, Péter Estók, Vuong Tan Tu, Jenő Kontschán: Description of a new tick species, Ixodes collaris n. Sp. (Acari: Ixodidae), from bats (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae, Rhinolophidae) in Vietnam . In: Parasites & Vectors . tape 9 , 2016, 332, doi : 10.1186 / s13071-016-1608-0 .

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