Ixodes ricinus

• Main Authors: Fedorov, Denis, Hornok, Sándor
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Ixodida; Ixodidae; Ixodes; Ixodes ricinus; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11196117; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C024D54FCCC25B7283909FF5CE14ED9C

Ixodes ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758) Acarus ricinus Linnaeus, 1758: 616. Ixodes reduvius (Linnaeus): Neumann 1911: 12. Ixodes sanguisugus (Linnaeus): Morel and Pérez 1978: 201. Ixodes vulgaris (Fabricius): Neumann 1911: 12. Ixodes holsatus (Fabricius): Nuttall and Warburton 1911: 285. Ixodes megathyreus Leach: Neumann 1911: 12. Ixodes bipunctatus Risso: Neumann 1911: 12. Ixodes trabeatus Audouin: Neumann 1911: 12. Ixodes marginalis Hahn: Oudemans 1896: 191. Ixodes sciuri Koch: Neumann 1911: 12. Ixodes fuscus Koch: Neumann 1911: 12. Ixodes sulcatus Koch: Neumann 1911: 12. Ixodes rufus Koch: Neumann 1901: 249. Ixodes lacertae Koch: Neumann 1911: 12. Ixodes pustularum Mégnin: Neumann 1911: 12. Ixodes vicinus Yerrill: Oudemans 1896: 191. Ixodes fodiens Murray: Neumann 1904: 444. Ixodes nigricans Neumann: Schulze 1939: 1. Ixodes areolaris Olenev: Pomerantsev 1950: 37. Recorded hosts. The host spectrum of I. ricinus is extremely broad both systematically and ecologically, including literally almost all mammals and birds of its geographical range, rarely even reptiles inhabiting the same biotopes with the tick. The fact of mass parasitism of immature stages on lizards of the Lacertidae family, in particular species of the genus Darevskia in the Caucasus (Kidov et al. 2013; Orlova et al. 2022) in habitats where they outnumber small mammals probably brightly demonstrates that I. ricinus is a generalist tick capable to use almost any available terrestrial vertebrates as hosts. Overall, the list of hosts consists of more than 300 species of mammals, birds and reptiles which have been recorded (Gern et al. 2002). Humans and domestic animals can also be hosts for the tick (Filippova 1977). Distribution (Fig. 16). The distribution of I. ricinus in Russia includes almost the whole territory of its European part excluding subpolar tundra areas (see the map) (Filippova 1977; Kahl and Gray 2023) and due to climate changes, the distribution of this tick species becomes wider (Gray et al. 2009; Yasyukevich et al. 2009). Ixodes ricinus ...