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II. Family IXODIDAE Murray, 1877. 

 Synonymy and Literature: 



Family Ixodei Duges, 1834 a, p. 15; 1834 c, p. 33. 



Family Ixodiden Koch, 1844, p. 220; 1847, p. 13. Fiirstenberg, 1861, p. 208. 



Family Ixodides Gervais and van Beneden, 1859, p. 460. 



Family Ixodidae Murray, 1877, p. 185. Pavesi, 1884, p. 483. Canestrini, 1890, 

 p. 530 ; 1892, pp. 563, 581 ; 1897, p. 468. Trouessart, 1892, p. 22. Supino, 

 1897 a, p. 241. Pocock, 1900 a, p. 48. Salmon and Stiles, 1901, p. 384. Banks, 

 1905, p. 42. Lahille, 1905, pp. 11 et seq. Banks, 1907, p. 62. Hunter and 

 Hooker, 1907, p. 46. Mauson, 1907, p. 205. Warburton, 1907, p. 89. Banks, 

 1908, pp. 12 et seq. Nuttall, Warburton, Cooper and Robinson, 1908, p. 1. 

 Donitz, 1910, p. 400. Stiles, 1910, p. 12. 



Family Ixodini Canestrini and Fanzago, 1877, p. 110. Canestrini, 1890, pp. 475, 

 491 ; 1892, p. 558. 



Family Ixodinae Karsch, 1880, p. 41. 



Tribe Ixodides Megnin, 1880, p. 120. 



Subfamily Ixodidae Berlese, 1885, p. 131. 



Tribe Ixodines Railliet, 1886, p. 495. Neumann, 1888, p. 89; 1892 a, p. 93. 



Subfamily Ixodinae Trouessart, 1892, p. 38. Railliet, 1895, p. 704. Neumann, 

 1896, p. 2 ; 1827, p. 325 ; 1899, p. 107. Ward, 1900 (a), p. 196 ; (6) p. 435. 

 Neumann, 1904, p. 444; 1907 a, p. 26. Howard, 1908, p. 89. Blanchard, 

 1910, pp. 55-77. Brumpt, 1910, p. 510. 



Tribe Ixodinae Neumann, 1892 b, p. 96. 



Group or Tribe Antistomata Marx, 1892 a, p. 233. 



Family Characters 1 . Scutate ticks with terminal capitulum and 

 spiracles posterior to coxae IV. Sexual dimorphism marked, the males 

 being almost entirely covered by the scutum, and .incapable of great 

 distention ; while the scutum of the distended female appears as a small 

 shield behind the capitulum. Porose areas present on the % capitidum. 

 Where eyes are present they are situated laterally upon the scutum. The 

 fourth article of the palp is reduced to form a tactile papilla. Type 

 genus : Ixodes. 



1 In this connection refer to Explanation of Terms and Signs used in the descriptions, 

 p. 127. 



