246. Ixodes ventalloi Gill Collado, 1936. A Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Lagomorpha: Leporidae, Carnivora: Canidae and Mustelidae, and Rodentia: Gliridae and Muridae; adults and nymphs have been collected from Carnivora: Felidae, Erinaceomorpha: Erinaceidae, Rodentia: Sciuridae, Passeriformes: Turdidae, and Strigiformes: Strigidae and Tytonidae; adults alone have been recovered from Carnivora: Herpestidae and Viverridae, Galliformes: Phasianidae, Gruiformes: Rallidae, and Passeriformes: Corvidae; immature stages have been found on Soricomorpha: Soricidae, and Squamata: Agamidae, Lacertidae and Scincidae; unknown stages have been collected from Rodentia: Hystricidae (Mori et al. 2015, Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Cull et al. 2018, Santos & Santos-Silva 2018). Ixodes ventalloi is a rare parasite of humans. M: Pérez-Eid (2007) F: Gil Collado (1936) N: Morel and Pérez (1977b) L: Morel and Pérez (1977a) Redescriptions M: Estrada-Peña et al. (2017, 2018), Latrofa et al. (2017) F: Gilot and Pérez (1978), Pérez-Eid (2007), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017, 2018), Latrofa et al. (2017) N: Manilla and Iori (1993), Pérez-Eid (2007), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017, 2018) L: Manilla and Iori (1992), Pérez-Eid (2007), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017, 2018) Note: see Ixodes festai for its confusion with Ixodes ventalloi by several authors, and Ixodes bivari for its proposed synonymy with Ixodes ventalloi.

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 pages 76-77, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340