Ixodes hexagonus, Leach, 1815

Robbins, Richard G., Nava, Santiago, Ronai, Isobel, Chong, Kaylin L. & Guglielmone, Alberto A., 2025, Type specimens of the world’s hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names, Zootaxa 5606 (1), pp. 1-287 : 101

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0851EDA-FE18-4F87-9245-B108786B22F4
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scientific name	Ixodes hexagonus
status

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hexagonus View in CoL longispinosus Neumann, 1901, Ixodes

Neumann, L.G. (1901) Révision de la famille des ixodidés (4 e mémoire). Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France, 14, 249–372.

Type depositories: USNPC? and USNTC?: syntypes (males, females and a nymph)

Type localities: Texas, Maine and Colorado, USA

Type host: otter, Putreolus vison , sheep, cat, fox, squirrel, weasel and porcupine

Current status: a synonym of Ixodes cookei ( Neumann 1911a, Keirans & Clifford 1978).

Comments: Neumann (1901) listed the USNPC and USNTC as depositories, but no specimens were found in those collections by Salley et al. (1978) and Keirans & Clifford (1984), respectively.