Ixodes stromi Filippova 1957

• Main Authors: Fedorov, Denis, Hornok, Sándor
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Ixodida; Ixodidae; Ixodes; Ixodes stromi; Common vole; Microtus arvalis; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11196127; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/FEC528744C435429903031C868A95539

Ixodes stromi Filippova, 1957 Ixodes stromi Filippova, 1957: 864. Recorded hosts. Mammalia : Alticola argentatus (Severtzov) (silver mountain vole), Apodemus agrarius (striped field mouse), Craseomys rufocanus (grey red-backed vole), Crocidura sp. (shrew), Lasiopodomys gregalis (narrow-headed vole), Microtus arvalis (common vole), Mustela sp. (weasel), Myodes centralis (Miller) (Tien Shan red-backed vole), Nothocricetulus migratorius (grey dwarf hamster), Ochotona macrotis (Günther) (large-eared pika), Rattus pyctoris (Turkestan rat) (Filippova 1977). Recorded locations (Fig. 20). Russia : Western Sayan (Arumova and Dineva 1973). Kazakhstan : Tarbagatai Mountains (Afanas’eva 1959), Dzungarian Alatau (Ushakova and Fedosenko 1963; Ushakova et al. 1976), Trans-Ili Alatau (Ushakova and Fedosenko 1963). Kyrgyzstan : Kyrgyz Ala-Too Range (Fedorova 2012 b), Terskey Alatau (Fedorova 2012 b), Chuy Valley – found in 1966 (Grebenyuk 1966), was not found in the same territories in 2018 (Fedorova 2021). Tajikistan : Peter the First Range (Filippova 1977), Varzob gorge (Sosnina 1954 – here I. stromi was incorrectly identified as I. trianguliceps because the new species was described by Filippova in 1957 b). Ecology and other information. Ixodes stromi is a tick species only indigenous to southern Siberia in Russia (Tsapko 2020). The main part of its distribution spans in Kazakhstan and Middle Asia. In all territories of its range, it is confined to the forest-meadow and forest-steppe belt of medium-altitude mountains, to stony and rocky habitats, which are insolated and, therefore, have a warmer microclimate (Filippova 1967). This species is nidicolous and uses rodents, shrews, and small carnivores as hosts at all stages. It is considered a rare species reaching small individual number (Filippova 1977). The type specimens of I. stromi are known from Kyrgyzstan and stored at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences: the lectotype: the nymph; Kyrgyzstan, Tien Shan, Kungei Ala Tau Mt. Range, Ch-Aksu Canyon, ...