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Genus Ixodes Latreille, 1795

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There are a total of 59 species of ticks in this genus, grouped into about 9 subgenera, that have been reported from the Palaearctic region (Guglielmone et al. 2014).

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  1. Department of Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zaragoza, Spain

    A. Estrada-Peña

  2. Department of Ecology and Parasitology, Institute of Zoology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    M. P. Pfäffle

  3. State Museum of Natural History, Erbprinzenstr. 13, 76133, Karlsruhe, Germany

    T. N. Petney

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Estrada-Peña, A., Pfäffle, M.P., Petney, T.N. (2017). Genus Ixodes Latreille, 1795. In: Estrada-Peña, A., Mihalca, A., Petney, T. (eds) Ticks of Europe and North Africa. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63760-0_18

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