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Fecundated and replete female resembles a slightly depressed castor-oil bean, 

 attains 10 to 11 mm. long by 6 to 7 mm. broad, is of ashy color, passing sometimes into 

 the black, brown, or yellow; scutum, capitulum, and legs a shining dark brown. 

 Scutum deep chestnut brown, oval-subpentagonal, with salient lateral borders, pos- 

 terior angle rounded, anterior border slightly emarginate to receive the base of the 



[See also Kolenati, 1857, p. 24, as syn. of Ixodes holsatus.~\ [See also 

 Neumann, 1899, p. 129, as syn. of Ixodes hexagonus.'] 

 1805: ^^Cynorrhsestes reduvius Hermann," 1804, of Fabricius, 1805, p. 351, as syn, of 

 Ixodes ridnus. 



1805: ^ ^ Cynorrhsestes ricinus Hermann," 1804, of Fabricius, 1805, p. 352, as syn. of 

 Ixodes viUgaris. 



1805: Ixodes vulgaris Fabricius, 1805, p. 352 [Acarus reduvius Linn., renamed]. 

 1805: ^^Acaruus reduvius''^ Linnseus of Fabricius, 1805, p. 352, as syn. of Ixodes vulgaris. 

 1815: Ixodes megathyreus Leach, 1815, p. 398; hosts, dogs and Erinaceus europxus. — 



Risso, 1826, p. 182.— Gervais, 1844, p. 240.— Koch, 1844, p. 234.— Idem, 



1847, p. 23.— Neumann, 1888, p. 93.— Idem, 1892a, p. 98.— Idem, 1892b, p. 



101. [See also Oudemans, 1896, p. 191, and Neumann, 1899, p. 112, as syn. 



of Ixodes reduvius.'] 



1826: Ixodes bipunctatus Risso, 1826, p. 183. — Gervais, 1844, p. 241. [See alsoCANEs- 

 TRiNi & Fanzago, 1877j p. 180; Oudemans, 1896, p. 19], and Neumann, 

 1899, p. 112, as syn. of Ixodes reduvius. — Neumann, 1896, p. 158, as nominal 

 species.] 



1826: Cynorhsestes Hermani Risso, 1826, pp. 183, 184. [See also Canestrini & Fan- 

 zago, 1877, p. 180 \_C. Hermani]; Oudemans, 1896, p. 191, and Neumann, 

 1899, p. 112, as syn. of Ixodes reduvius.] 



1826: Cynorhsestes megathyreus (Leach) Risso (1826, p. — ). [See also Canestrini & 

 Fanzago, 1877, p. 180, as syn. of Ixodes reduvius.] 



1829: Crotonus ricinus (Linnseus) Dumeril, 1829, pp. 401, 402. [See also Neumann, 

 1899, p. 112, as syn. of Ixodes reduvius.] 



1832: " C hinorhsestes ricinus" (Linnseus) Hermann of Audouin, 1832, p. 423. 



1832: Ixodes trabeatus Audouin, 1832, pp. 420-422, pi. xiv, fig. 3 a-n. — Gervais, 1844, 

 pp. 241, 242.— Dolly, 1894, p. 1000. [See also Oudemans, 1896, p. 191, and 

 Neumann, 1899, p. 112, as syn. of Ixodes reduvius.] 



1834: Ixodes plumbeus Duges, 1834a, p. 20. — Idem, 1834c, pp. 33-36, pi. vii, figs. 7-12; 

 renamed Ixodes Dugesii by P. Gervais. [See also Ixodes plumbeus (Fabricius, 

 1794) Fabricius, 1805, p. 353. —Neumann, 1899, p. 112, as syn. of Ixodes 

 reduvius. — Osborn, 1896, p. 257, as syn. of Boophilus bovis.] [Not Ixodes 

 plumbeus Panzer (1795, Heft 90, No. 32.).— Koch, 1844, p. 234.— Idem, 

 1847, p. 23.] [Not Ixodes plumbeus Leach, 1815, p, 397; renamed Ixodes 

 lividus Koch, 1844, p. 234. — Idem, 1847, p. 23.] 



1835: Ixodes fuscus Koch (1835), Heft 39, figs. 3, 4.— Idem, 1844, p. 232.— Idem, 1847, 

 p. 21.— Canestrini & Fanzago, 1877, p. 184. [See also Oudemans, 1896, 

 p. 191, and Neumann, 1899, p. 112, as syn. of Ixodes reduvius.] [See Ixodes 

 fuscous (Say, 1821, p. = fuscus Say" of Gervais, 1847, p. 352, and 

 Neumann, 1899, p. 165.] 



1835: Ixodes lacertse Koch (1835), Heft 37, figs. 5-7; Heft 39, fig. 11.— Idem, 1844, 

 p. 234.— Idem, 1847, p. 22. [See also Neumann, 1899, p. 112, as syn. of 

 Ixodes reduvius.] 



1866: Ixodes pustularum Megnin MS. in Lucas, 1866, p. Ivii; France. [Renamed Ixodes 

 fodiens by Megnin, 1867.] [See also Murray, 1877, pp. 191, 192, and Dolly, 

 1894, p. 1000, as syn. of Ixodes /odie^is.— Neumann, 1899, p. 113, as syn. of 



Ixodes reduvius. ] 



1867: Ixodes fodiens Megnin, 1867, p. 107.— Murray, 1877, pp. 191, 192, figs. 2. [See 



