German Ixodes inopinatus samples may not actually represent this tick species
R. E. Rollins, G. Margos, A. Brachmann, S. Krebs, A. Mouchet, N. Dingemanse, A. Laatamna, N. Reghaissia, V. Fingerle, D. Metzler, N. S. Becker, L. Chitimia-Dobler
The study shows that German ticks morphologically identified as Ixodes inopinatus are genetically Ixodes ricinus, not I. inopinatus, and mitochondrial data alone cannot distinguish between the two species.
bioRxiv · Feb 14, 2023Evolutionary Biology