Ixodes keiransi Nava & Beati & Venzal & Durden & Bermudez & Tarragona & Mangold & Gleason & Mastropaolo & Guglielmone 2023, n. sp.

• Main Authors: Nava, Santiago, Beati, Lorenza, Venzal, Jose M., Durden, Lance A., Bermudez, Sergio E., Tarragona, Evelina L., Mangold, Atilio J., Gleason, Debbie, Mastropaolo, Mariano, Guglielmone, Alberto A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Ixodida; Ixodidae; Ixodes; Ixodes keiransi; Bear Island; Lynx
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10168553

Ixodes keiransi n. sp. Beati, Nava, Venzal and Guglielmone Type locality. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Florida, Collier Co., Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve (26°00’N, 81°25’W). Type material: Holotype ♀, allotype ♂, ex Puma concolor floridanus , [now P. c. couguar (Kerr, 1792)], 2 August 1991, United States, Florida, Collier Co., Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve (collector unknown). Deposited in the U.S. National Tick Collection (USNMENT1786405, from original lot: RML122075, USNMENT985416), Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, United States. Other material of Ixodes keiransi examined from the United States. 1♂ ex Lynx rufus , Hendry Co., Florida (USNMENT985445); 1♀ ex O. virginianus , Bear Island Unit of Big Cypress National Preserve (26°14’N, 81°16’W), Collier Co. Florida (USNMENT985470); 1♂ ex vegetation, Wedge Plantation (33°10’N, 79°24’W), Charleston, South Carolina (USNMENT985435); 1♀ 1♂ ex O. virginianus , Collier Co., Florida (USNMENT985473); 1♀ 1♂ ex O. virginianus Collier Co., Florida (USNMENT985479); 2♀♀ ex P. concolor Bear Island Unit of Big Cypress National Preserve (26°14’N, 81°16’W), Collier Co. Florida (USNMENT985430); 1♀ ex P. concolor , Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve (26°00’N, 81°25’W), Collier Co., Florida (USNMENT985401); 2♀♀ ex P. concolor Bear Island Unit of Big Cypress National Preserve (26°14’N, 81°16’W), Collier Co. Florida (USNMENT985457); 1♀ ex P. concolor , Evergaldes National Park, Dade Co., Florida (USNMENT985409); 7♀♀ ex P. concolor , Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve (26°00’N, 81°25’W), Collier Co., Florida (USNMENT985418); 5♀♀ 6♂♂ ex P. concolor , Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve (26°00’N, 81°25’W), Collier Co., Florida (USNMENT985402); 11♀♀ 4♂♂ ex P. concolor , Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve (26°00’N, 81°25’W), Collier Co., Florida (USNMENT985416); 1♀ 1♂ ex P. concolor , Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge (26°10’ N, 81°22’W), Collier Co. Florida (USNMENT985425); 2♀♀ 1♂ ex P. concolor , Bear Island Unit of Big Cypress National Preserve (26°14’N, 81°16’W), Collier ...