Ixodes simplex Neumann, 1906

Orlova, Maria V., Halliday, Bruce, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Kruskop, Sergei V., Lavrenchenko, Leonid A., Mishchenko, Vladimir A. & Vyalykh, Ivan V., 2024, New records of ectoparasitic mites on bats in Ethiopia, Ecologica Montenegrina 79, pp. 150-159 : 154-155

Ixodes simplex Neumann, 1906

Ixodes simplex Neumann, 1906: 197 .

Ixodes simplex .— Estrada-Peña et al., 2017: 103.

Material: 1 female, ex male Rhinolophus landeri Martin, 1838 , from Dhati-Welel National Park , 1 February 2014, leg. Sergei V. Kruskop (collection ID ZMMU S-193052) .

Distribution: Many countries of Old World; in Africa distributed in Kenya, Sudan, South Africa, Ethiopia (this study, new record).

Host species: Many bat species of families Vespertilionidae and Miniopteridae . Rhinolophidae : Rhinolophus landeri (this study, new record).

Non-chiropteran host: human ( Péter et al., 2021).

Medical significance: – associated pathogens – Anaplasma phagocytophilum ( Hornok et al. 2019) , Babesia crassa , Babesia venatorum , Babesia canis , Theileria capreoli , Theileria orientalis , Theileria sp. ( Hornok et al. 2016), Mycoplasma spp. ( Corduneanu et al. 2023).