Ixodes persulcatus Schulze 1930

• Main Authors: Fedorov, Denis, Hornok, Sándor
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• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Ixodida; Ixodidae; Ixodes; Ixodes persulcatus; Kamchatka; Kamchatka Peninsula; Sakhalin; taiga
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11196111; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/BDAE1241C08F5E4C8EA80E08CFD31873

Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, 1930 Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, 1930: 294. Ixodes ricinus miyazakiensis Kishida: Morel and Pérez 1978: 201. Ixodes persulcatus diversipalpis Schulze, 1930: 294; Pomerantsev 1950: 43. Ixodes persulcatus cornuatus Olenev: Pomerantsev 1950: 43. Ixodes sachalinensis Filippova: Kolonin 1981: 49. Recorded hosts. The spectrum of hosts of I. persulcatus is extremely broad both systematically and ecologically and includes more than 200 species of mammals and 100 species of birds (Shilova and Clabovskii 1968). Rarely it can parasitize reptiles – lizards of the family Lacertidae (Ravkin 1969). Literally almost all mammals and birds inhabiting various types of forests and their derivative biotopes can act as hosts for I. persulcatus . Larvae and nymphs parasitize more often small and medium-sized mammals, such as shrews, hedgehogs, rodents, and lagomorphs, as well as ground-feeding and ground-nesting birds. Adults usually feed on large and medium-sized mammals – ungulates, carnivores, lagomorphs. Humans and domestic animals can also be hosts for this tick species (Filippova 1977). Distribution in Russia and other post-Soviet countries (Fig. 14). The range of I. persulcatus , like no other Palearctic species, is extended in the latitudinal direction by a continuous strip, covering a significant part of the taiga forest zone in Eurasia between 21 ° – 66 ° latitude in the northern hemisphere from the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Baltic states, Belarus and Ukraine in the west where it is present sporadically to the east up to the Pacific coast including the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Sakhalin Island and further to the north-east of China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan (Filippova 1977; Wang et al. 2023). This tick belongs to the tick fauna of the next post-Soviet countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan (Guglielmone et al. 2023). The presence of I. persulcatus in Ukraine outside the south-west border of the taiga was mentioned by Filippova (1977), ...