Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019 Author Guglielmone, Alberto A. 0000-0001-5430-2889 guglielmone.alberto@inta.gob.ar Author Petney, Trevor N. 0000-0002-9135-4546 trevor.petney@smnk.de Author Robbins, Richard G. 0000-0001-5430-2889 guglielmone.alberto@inta.gob.ar text Zootaxa 2020 2020-11-05 4871 1 1 322 journal article 7890 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1 344f8a86-21a1-428e-ae4f-01ea6082254a 1175-5326 4423340 C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614 244. Ixodes vanidicus Schulze, 1943b . An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Carnivora : Herpestidae ; adults alone have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Carnivora : Canidae , Felidae and Viverridae , and Macroscelidea : Macroscelididae . Ixodes vanidicus is a very rare parasite of humans. M: Schulze (1943b) F: Schulze (1943b) N: Schulze (1943b) L: Schulze (1943b) Redescriptions M: Arthur (1965), Keirans et al. (1982) , Matthysse and Colbo (1987) F: Arthur (1965), Keirans et al. (1982) , Matthysse and Colbo (1987) N: Arthur (1965) L: Arthur (1965), Sénevet and Ripert (1967a) Note: see Ixodes oldi for a discussion of the problems involved in morphologically identifying the species constituting the oldi group, to which Ixodes vanidicus belongs.