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57. Ixodes dawesi Arthur, 1956  Map 3 Zaire. Some females were found on the giant otter-shrews Potamogale velox and Micropotamogale ruwenzorii. Literature: Arthur (1965), Elbl and Anastos (1966).
58. Ixodes dendrolagi Wilson, 1967  Map 6 New Guinea. Adults were only collected on the tree kangaroos Dendrolagus matschiei and D. dorianus. Nymph and larva have not been described. Literature: Wilson (1967), Hoogstraal (1982).
59. Ixodes dentatus Marx, 1899  Map 8 USA (eastern states to the west and to the south as far as Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama, and Georgia). Principal hosts of all stages are rabbits, but mainly Sylvilagus floridanus. Immature ticks also feed on birds (Passeriformes) and occasionally on rodents. Literature: Cooley and Kohls (1945), Keirans and Clifford (1978).
60. Ixodes dicei Keirans and Ajohda, 2003  Map 47 Costa Rica. Females and males were collected from the rabbit Sylvilagus dicei. Immature ticks have not been described. Literature: Keirans and Ajohda (2003), Guglielmone et al. (2003à).
61. Ixodes diomedeae Arthur, 1958 Map 8 Tristan da Cunha Islands (Atlantic Ocean). This species is known from a single female collected on the albatross Diomedea chlororhynchus. Literature: Arthur (1965).
62. Ixodes djaronensis Neumann, 1907  Map 53 Kenya and Tanzania. Species known from some females and one male, collected from the blotched genet Genetà tigrina and the mongoose Bdeogale crassicauda. Literature: Arthur (1965).
63. Ixodes domerguei Uilenberg and Hoogstraal, 1965  Map 11 Madagascar. Species was described from two females collected from the birds Newtonia brunneicauda and Nelicurvius nelicourvi (order Passeriformes). Literature: Uilenberg et al. (1979).
64. Ixodes downsi Kohls, 1957  Map 49 Venezuela, Peru, and Trinidad Island. Ticks were found in caves inhabited by oilbirds Steatornis caripensis. One female, one male, and nymphs were found on the wall of a cave, one female was collected on an oilbird, three females and three nymphs were collected from guano, and one larva was collected on the bat Anoura geoffroyi. Literature: Wilson and Baker (1989), Guglielmone et al. (2003à), Gonzalez-Acuña et al. (2008).
65. Ixodes drakensbergensis Clifford, Theiler and Baker, 1975  Map 13 Republic of South Africa (Natal). All stages were collected on goats, zebu, eland, and vegetation. Literature: Clifford et al. (1975).
66. Ixodes eadsi Kohls and Clifford, 1964 Map 8 USA (Òåõàs). Females, nymphs, and larvae were collected on spiny pocket mice Liomys irroratus and from their nests. Larvae were also found on other rodents, and a male molted from an engorged nymph. Literature: Keirans and Clifford (1978).
67. Ixodes eastoni Keirans and Clifford, 1983 Map 8 USA (South Dakota and Wyoming) Principal hosts are murid rodents, from which all stages were collected. Single larvae were found on a chipmunk and a shrew. Literature: Keirans and Clifford (1983), Robbins and Keirans (1992).
68. Ixodes eichhorni Nuttall, 1916  Map 7 Bismarck Archipelago (Manus and Rook Islands), Caroline Islands (Palau), New Hebrides, Western Samoa, and Philippines (Mindanao). Females were found on the red junglefowl Gallus gallus, on megapodes of the family Megapodidae, and on the thrush Turdus poliocephalus. Nymphs were found on a halcyon. One female was collected from a human. Literature: Kohls (1950), Keirans and Brewster (1981).
69. Ixodes eldaricus Djaparidze, 1950  Map 18 Iraq, Israel, Cyprus (on migrant birds), Ukraine (Crimea), Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kirghizia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Russia (Daghestan). Mountain xerophilous forests and bush up to the altitude of 1800 m. Principal hosts of all stages are birds feeding on the ground. Nymphs and larvae also feed on small mammals. Literature: Arthur (1959, 1968), Filippova (1977).
70. Ixodes elongatus Bedfordi, 1929  Map 52 Zimbabwe and the Republic of South Africa. Species known from some females collected on the rodents Mastomys coucha, Rattus chrysophilus, and R. natalensis, as well as shrews. Literature: Arthur (1965).
71. Ixodes eudyptidis Maskell, 1885 Map 6 Shores and adjacent islands of New Zealand and Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania, and Western Australia). This species parasitizes sea birds, including penguins (mainly the little penguin Eudyptula minor), cormorants, boobies, gulls, terns, and others. All stages are described. Literature: Dumbleton (1953, 1961), Roberts (1960, 1970), Heath (1977).
72. Ixodes euplecti Arthur, 1958 Map 11 Congo, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Egypt (on migrant birds). Females were collected on the birds Euplectes, Turdus, Cisticola, Anthus, and other genera (order Passeriformes). Literature: Arthur (1965), Hoogstraal and Wassef (1984a).
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