TY  - JOUR
JF  - Acarologia
T1  - Ixodes crenulatus Koch, 1844. Synonymy with I. kaiseri Arthur, 1957 and redescriptions of the male, female, nymph and larva (Acarina: Ixodidae)
VL  - 11
IS  - 2
SP  - 193
EP  - 206
PY  - 1969
SN  - 0044-586X
SN  - 2107-7207
PB  - Les Amis d'Acarologia
AU  - Sonenshine, D.E.
AU  - Kohls, G.M.
AU  - Clifford, C.M.
UR  - https://www1.montpellier.inrae.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=3507
DA  - 1969-07-01
KW  - Acari
KW  - Ixododidae
KW  - Ixodes crenulatus
KW  - Ixodes kaiseri
KW  - Egypt
AB  - Specimens of Ixodes kaiseri Arthur, 1957 from Egypt, United Arab Republic, were compared with Ixodes cremtlatus Koch, 1844 from Lebanon, U.S.S.R., Afghanistan, and India. The criteria used by Arthur to distinguish I. kaiseri and I . crenulatus were found to be highly variable and therefore invalid. One of the presumed differentiating characters, coxal spurs on the males of I . cremtlatus, was not found at all, an observation corroborated by Filippova (1961). Consequently, we regard I. kaiseri as a synonym of I. cremtlatus. Descriptions of all stages, with illustrations, of I. crenulat~ts, including the female and larva of ’kaiseri’ from Egypt, are given.
ER -