Table 2 Check-list of Ixodid tick species associated with mustelids

I. acuminatus

Mustela nivalis[22], Mustela putorius[22], Mustela vison[23]

I. angustus

Mustela erminea[24]

I. cookei

Mustela frenata[25], Mustela nivalis[26], Mustela vison[26, 27]

I. crenulatus

Martes foina[28], Meles meles[24], Mustela erminea[29],

Mustela lutreola[30], Mustela nivalis[28], Mustela putorius[31], Mustela vison[23],

I. gregsoni

Martes americana[32], Martes pennanti[33], Mustela sp. [32], Mustela vison[32, 33]

I. hexagonus

Martes foina[13, 31, 34–36], Mustela putorius[31, 35, 36],

Mustela erminea[29, 31, 35–37], Mustela nivalis[31, 38],

M. putorius furo[31, 39], Meles meles[34–36], Mustela vison[23]

I. muris

Mustela vison[40]

I. nipponensis

Mustela sibirica[41]

I. pacificus

Mustela frenata[42], Taxidea taxus[42]

I. persulcatus

Martes flavigula[37], Martes martes[37], Meles meles[37], Mustela erminea[37], Mustela nivalis[37], Mustela putorius[37], Mustela sibirica[37]

I. ricinus

Martes foina[13, 22, 35, 37], Martes martes[37], Meles meles[14, 35, 37], Mustela erminea[14, 29], Mustela lutreola[37],

Mustela nivalis[37], Mustela putorius[14, 37], Mustela vison[23]

I. rugicollis

Martes sp. [43]

I. scapularis

Mustela erminea[16], Mustela frenata[25]

I. tanuki

Martes flavigula[44]

I. texanus

Mustela frenata[25]

I. ventalloi

Mustela nivalis[38]