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Description, Hosts, and Ecology of Ixodes Kuntzi N. Sp., Kuntz's Taiwan Flying Squirrel Tick (Ixodoidea: Ixodidae)

Abstract: Ixodes kuntzi n. sp., described from numerous collections of females, nymphs, and larvae made at elevations between 210 m and 2400 m (chiefly 900–2100 m) in the southern two-thirds of Taiwan, commonly parasitizes flying squirrels ( Petaurista lena and P. grandis ) living in tall trees. Other hosts, recorded only for immature stages, are the Red-bellied Squirrel ( Callosciurus erythraeus centralis ), Striped Squirrel ( Tamiops swinhoei formosanus ), Field Mouse ( Apodemus semotus ), Spinous Country Rat ( Rattus c. coxinga ), White-bellied Rat ( Rattus culturatus ), and House Rat ( Rattus rattus ), as well as a Nuthatch ( Sitta europaea ). All hosts were in or closely associated with rich, dense rain forests at lower altitudes or with semi-deciduous broad-leaf forests at upper elevations. The male of I. kuntzi was not collected; it probably does not feed and is confined to nests of hosts of other stages of this tick.