Description of a new species of Ixodes Latreille, 1795 (Acari: Ixodidae) and redescription of I. priscicollaris Schulze, 1932, parasites of New Guinea rodents (Rodentia: Muridae)

Dmitry A Apanaskevich; Howard E Lemon

doi:10.1007/s11230-018-9786-0

Description of a new species of Ixodes Latreille, 1795 (Acari: Ixodidae) and redescription of I. priscicollaris Schulze, 1932, parasites of New Guinea rodents (Rodentia: Muridae)

Syst Parasitol. 2018 May;95(4):373-382. doi: 10.1007/s11230-018-9786-0. Epub 2018 Mar 13.

Authors

Dmitry A Apanaskevich^{1

2}, Howard E Lemon^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ United States National Tick Collection, the James H. Oliver, Jr. Institute for Coastal Plain Science, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, 30460-8056, USA. dapanaskevich@georgiasouthern.edu.
² Biology Department, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, 30460, USA. dapanaskevich@georgiasouthern.edu.
³ United States National Tick Collection, the James H. Oliver, Jr. Institute for Coastal Plain Science, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, 30460-8056, USA.
⁴ Biology Department, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, 30460, USA.

PMID: 29536248
DOI: 10.1007/s11230-018-9786-0

Abstract

Ixodes goliath n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae), is described based on females collected from the eastern hyomys, Hyomys goliath (Milne-Edwards) (Rodentia: Muridae) from Papua New Guinea. Females of I. goliath n. sp. are similar to those of I. priscicollaris Schulze, 1932 but can be distinguished by the overall size, porose areas sculpture and shape of palpal segment I ventrally. For comparative purposes, the female of I. priscicollaris is redescribed. Studied females of I. priscicollaris were found on murid rodents and Phascogale sp. (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae) from Indonesia (Papua Province) and Papua New Guinea.

MeSH terms

Animals
Female
Ixodes / anatomy & histology
Ixodes / classification*
Ixodes / physiology
Papua New Guinea
Rodentia / parasitology*
Species Specificity