Background Taxonomic identification of ticks obtained during a longitudinal survey of the
critically endangered marsupial, Bettongia penicillata Gray, 1837 (woylie, brush-tailed …

Background Ticks are among the most important vectors of pathogens affecting companion
animals, and also cause health problems such as tick paralysis, anaemia, dermatitis, and …

Background Ixodes barkeri, a tick with a distinctive ventrolateral horn-like projection on
palpal segment 1, was described in 2019 from two male ticks from the Wet Tropics of Far …

Abstract Background The Australasian paralysis ticks and their relatives, Ixodes Latrielle,
subgenus Sternalixodes Schulze, are some of the most important ticks in the region …

Ixodes ticks are extremely rare and localized in most of North Africa. The discovery of a new
species in Egypt, described herein, raises to 2 the species known from that country. As is …

A new species of co-endangered tick, Ixodes heathi n. sp., is described from specimens of
the nymph collected on the critically endangered mountain pygmy possum (Burramys …

Limited knowledge regarding the biology and identification of the Australian tick Ixodes
myrmecobii exists with only the female described to date. Here we provide a description of …

Objective To describe the actual and potential geographic distributions of Ixodes cornuatus
and I holocyclus in south‐eastern Australia. Procedure Examination of ticks from museum …

Ticks from mainland Australia (Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland) and Tasmania,
identified morphologically as either Ixodes holocyclus or Ixodes cornuatus, were compared …

Abstract Background Among hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae), the genus Ixodes comprises the
highest number of species, which in turn are most numerous in the Afrotropical …