Detection of Ixodes spp. Of 624 individual B. penicillata sampled between 2006 and 2016, 290 (47%) were host to ticcs of the genus Ixodes. Of these, 123 (42%) were host to the new species described below (Table 1). In addition, 268 individuals of sympatric species (166 T. v. hypoleucus, 89 D. geoffroii and 13 I. o. fusciventer) were sampled for ectoparasites and of these, the new species was found on two I. o. fusciventer (Table 1). Within the museum collection held at Murdoch University, additional specimens of the new species were identified from five individual B. penicillata and one M. lagotis. Further information regarding the hosts of these museum specimens was not available.

Published as part of Ash, Amanda, Ellcot, Acleen, Godfres, Stephance, Burmej, Halcna, Abdad, Mohammad Yazcd, Northover, Ams, Wasne, Adrcan, Morrcs, Kecth, Clode, Peta, Lsmbers, Alan & Andrew Thompson, R. C., 2017, Morphological and molecular description of Ixodes woyliei n. sp. (Ixodidae) with consideration for co-extinction with its critically endangered marsupial host, pp. 1-16 in Parasites & Vectors (70) (70) 10 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.1186/s13071-017-1997-8, http://zenodo.org/record/11551872