Ixodid Ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) of Central Africa: Genus Ixodes Latreille, 1795

A-scutum Africa Anal groove horseshoeshaped apex Appendix Arthrop ARTHUR and BURROW auriculae Author and date average Basis capituli Bequaert Biology LIFE CYCLE broad brown Burundi CAPITULUM Cephalophus Collection Date Specimens concave Congo convex Cricetomys Crocidura Date Specimens Collector depressed Distribution and Hosts District Locality Host elongate examined and identified external spur figs Genetta Genital aperture opposite Haut-Lomami holotype Host Date Specimens Hosts CONGO Hypostome identified as Ixodes Ixodoidea Katanga Katanga Province Kivu Province lateral margins LEGS literature as Ixodes Lophuromys male Maniema Mastomys Material examined Material recorded median mesial midlength nairobiensis NEUMANN Nord-Kivu NUTTALL and WARBURTON okapiae Orientale Province oval palpal Palps Palps long PARC NATIONAL Porose porose areas posterior margin procaviae Province District Locality recorded in literature rounded Rwanda Rwanda and Burundi Scutisorex SCUTUM setae slightly species Spiracular plate subapical hump subtriangular Sud-Kivu syncoxae Synonymy TABLE tapering Theiler triangular Trochanters unarmed Unstudied VENTER ventral view Vertebrates in Afr Zool