8. Ixodes amersoni Kohls, 1966. A species found on central and south Pacific islands. Females have been collected from Charadriiformes: Laridae and Sternidae, Suliformes: Sulidae, and Procellariiformes: Procellariidae. There are no records of Ixodes amersoni causing human parasitism. M: unknown F: Kohls (1966) N: unknown L: unknown Redescription F: Heath and Palma (2017) Note: the only redescription of the female of Ixodes amersoni is in a key without figures provided by Heath and Palma (2017). Camicas et al. (1998) list the nymph of Ixodes amersoni, under the name Scaphixodes amersoni, as described and consider this tick to be established in the Australasian Region, statements that are not shared in this study.

Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, pp. 1-322 in Zootaxa 4871 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340