3. Ixodes acutitarsus (Karsch, 1880). An Oriental and Palearctic species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae, while larvae and nymphs are commonly collected from Rodentia: Cricetidae, Muridae and Sciuridae. Adults and nymphs have been collected from Carnivora: Felidae; adults alone have been recovered from Artiodactyla (several families), Carnivora: Ursidae, and rarely from Passeriformes: Corvidae; larvae alone have been found on Soricomorpha: Soricidae. Ixodes acutitarsus is a frequent parasite of humans. M: Warburton (1910), under the name Ixodes gigas, a synonym of Ixodes acutitarsus F: Karsch (1880), under the name Haemalastor acutitarsus; given its current status in Neumann (1911a) N: Clifford et al. (1975a) L: Clifford et al. (1975a) Redescriptions M: Sharif (1928), Nemenz (1968), Teng and Jiang (1991) F: Nuttal and Warburton (1911), Sharif (1928), Keegan and Toshioka (1957), Nemenz (1968), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Teng and Jiang (1991), Yamauchi and Takada (2015) N: Teng and Jiang (1991), Fujita and Takada (2007) L: Teng and Jiang (1991), Fujita and Takada (2007)

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 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340