Ixodes is a genus of hard-bodied ticks (family Ixodidae). It includes important disease vectors of animals and humans (tick-borne disease), and some species (notably Ixodes holocyclus) inject toxins that can cause paralysis. Some ticks in this genus may transmit the pathogenic bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi responsible for causing Lyme disease. Additional organisms that may be transmitted by Ixodes are parasites from the genus Babesia, which cause babesiosis, and bacteria from the related genus Anaplasma, which cause anaplasmosis.
Species
These species are recognised within the genus Ixodes:
Ixodes abrocomae Lahille, 1917
Ixodes acer Apanaskevich & Schenk, 2020
Ixodes acuminatus Neumann, 1901
Ixodes acutitarsus (Karsch, 1880) Ixodes affinis Neumann, 1899 Ixodes albignaci Uilenberg & Hoogstraal, 1969 Ixodes alluaudi Neumann, 1913 Ixodes amarali Fonseca, 1935 Ixodes amersoni Kohls, 1966 Ixodes anatis Chilton, 1904 Ixodes andinus Kohls, 1956 Ixodes angustus Neumann, 1899 Ixodes antechini Roberts, 1960 Ixodes apronophorus Schulze, 1924 Ixodes arabukiensis Arthur, 1959 Ixodes aragaoi Fonseca, 1935 Ixodes arboricola Schulze & Schlottke, 1930 Ixodes arebiensis Arthur, 1956 Ixodes asanumai Kitaoka, 1973 Ixodes aulacodi Arthur, 1956 Ixodes auriculaelongae Arthur, 1958 Ixodes auritulus Neumann, 1904 Ixodes australiensis Neumann, 1904 Ixodes baergi Cooley & Kohls, 1942 Ixodes bakeri Arthur & Clifford, 1961 Ixodes banksi Bishopp, 1911 Ixodes barkeri Barker, 2019 Ixodes bedfordi Arthur, 1959 Ixodes bequaerti Cooley & Kohls, 1945 Ixodes berlesei Birula, 1895 Ixodes bivari Santos Dias, 1990 Ixodes boliviensis Neumann, 1904 Ixodes brewsterae Keirans, Clifford & Walker, 1982 Ixodes browningi Arthur, 1956 Ixodes brumpti Morel, 1965 Ixodes brunneus Koch, 1844 Ixodes calcarhebes Arthur & Zulu, 1980 Ixodes caledonicus Nuttall, 1910 Ixodes canisuga Johnston, 1849 Ixodes capromydis Cerný, 1966 Ixodes catherinei Keirans, Clifford & Walker, 1982 Ixodes cavipalpus Nuttall & Warburton, 1908 Ixodes ceylonensis Kohls, 1950 Ixodes chilensis Kohls, 1956 Ixodes colasbelcouri Arthur, 1957 Ixodes collocaliae Schulze, 1937 Ixodes columnae Takada & Fujita, 1992 Ixodes conepati Cooley & Kohls, 1943 Ixodes confusus Roberts, 1960 Ixodes cookei Packard, 1869 Ixodes cooleyi Aragão & Fonseca, 1951 Ixodes copei Wilson, 1980 Ixodes cordifer Neumann, 1908 Ixodes cornuae Arthur, 1960 Ixodes cornuatus Roberts, 1960 Ixodes corwini Keirans, Clifford & Walker, 1982 Ixodes crenulatus Koch, 1844 Ixodes cuernavacensis Kohls & Clifford, 1966 Ixodes cumulatimpunctatus Schulze, 1943 Ixodes dampfi Cooley, 1943 Ixodes daveyi Nuttall, 1913 Ixodes dawesi Arthur, 1956 Ixodes dendrolagi Wilson, 1967 Ixodes dentatus Marx, 1899 Ixodes dicei Keirans & Ajohda, 2003 Ixodes diomedeae Arthur, 1958 Ixodes diversifossus Neumann, 1899 Ixodes djaronensis Neumann, 1907 Ixodes domerguei Uilenberg & Hoogstraal, 1965 Ixodes downsi Kohls, 1957 Ixodes drakensbergensis Clifford, Theiler & Baker, 1975 Ixodes eadsi Kohls & Clifford, 1964 Ixodes eastoni Keirans & Clifford, 1983 Ixodes eichhorni Nuttall, 1916 Ixodes eldaricus Dzhaparidze, 1950 Ixodes elongatus Bedford, 1929 Ixodes eudyptidis Maskell, 1885 Ixodes euplecti Arthur, 1958 Ixodes evansi Arthur, 1956 Ixodes fecialis Warburton & Nuttall, 1909 Ixodes festai Rondelli, 1926 Ixodes fossulatus Neumann, 1899 Ixodes frontalis Panzer, 1798 Ixodes fuscipes Koch, 1844 Ixodes galapagoensis Clifford & Hoogstraal, 1980 Ixodes ghilarovi Filippova & Panova, 1988 Ixodes gibbosus Nuttall, 1916 Ixodes giluwensis Apanaskevich & Schenk, 2020 Ixodes goliath Apanaskevich and Lemon, 2018 Ixodes granulatus Supino, 1897 Ixodes gregsoni Lindquist, Wu & Redner, 1999 Ixodes guatemalensis Kohls, 1956 Ixodes hearlei Gregson, 1941 Ixodes heathi Kwak, Madden & Wicker, 2018 Ixodes heinrichi Arthur, 1962 Ixodes hexagonus Leach, 1815 Ixodes himalayensis Dhanda & Kulkarni, 1969 Ixodes hirsti Hassall, 1931 Ixodes holocyclus Neumann, 1899 Ixodes hoogstraali Arthur, 1955 Ixodes howelli Cooley & Kohls, 1938 Ixodes hyatti Clifford, Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1971 Ixodes hydromyidis Swan, 1931 Ixodes jacksoni Hoogstraal, 1967 Ixodes jellisoni Cooley & Kohls, 1938 Ixodes jonesae Kohls, Sonenshine & Clifford, 1969 Ixodes kaiseri Arthur, 1957 Ixodes kaschmiricus Pomerantsev, 1948 Ixodes kazakstani Olenev & Sorokoumov, 1934 Ixodes kerguelenensis André & Colas-Belcour, 1942 Ixodes kingi Bishopp, 1911 Ixodes kohlsi Arthur, 1955 Ixodes kopsteini Oudemans, 1926 Ixodes kuntzi Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1965 Ixodes laguri Olenev, 1929 Ixodes lasallei Méndez Arocha & Ortiz, 1958 Ixodes latus Arthur, 1958 Ixodes laysanens