Checklist of New Zealand ticks (Acari: Ixodidae, Argasidae) Author Heath, Allen C. G. AgResearch, National Centre for Biosecurity and Infectious Disease, Wallaceville, P. O. Box 40063, Upper Hutt, New Zealand, 5140 allen.heath@agresearch.co.nz Author Palma, Ricardo L. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand ricardop@tepapa.govt.nz Author Cane, Rachel P. Mosquito Consulting Services (NZ), P. O. Box 69 - 198, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand rachel.cane@mcspty.com Author Hardwick, Scott Biosecurity Group, AgResearch, Private Bag 4749, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand scott.hardwick@agresearch.co.nz text Zootaxa 2011 2011-08-15 2995 55 63 journal article 47035 10.5281/zenodo.203775 243330e0-1613-42ec-a6dd-60c80c56a438 1175-5326 203775
TABLE 1. Geographical distribution of ticks found in New Zealand.
SpeciesDistribution
Ixodes uriaeBipolar; 40ºN to70ºN and 40ºS to 64ºS; circumpolar at those latitudes.
Carios capensisWidespread on islands of South Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans and occasion- ally on the mainland between 40ºN and 45ºS
Haemaphysalis longicornisWestern Pacific from 50ºN to 42ºS
Ixodes amersoniPacific: Phoenix I; Enderbury I, Phoenix Islands group; Curtis I., Kermadec Is
Ixodes eudyptidisNew Zealand and southern Australia
Ixodes auritulus zealandicusNew Zealand subregion and sub-Antarctic
Ixodes kerguelenensisNew Zealand subregion and sub-Antarctic
Amblyomma sphenodontiNew Zealand
Ixodes anatisNew Zealand
Ixodes jacksoniNew Zealand