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Haemaphysalus knobigera Prakasan & Ramani 2007

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Smithsonian Institution, Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland 20746, USA & One Health Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA & Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560, USA
  • 2. Instituto de Investigación de la Cadena Láctea (INTA-CONICET), Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela, ruta 34 km 227, Rafaela, Santa Fe, Argentina
  • 3. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815, USA
  • 4. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA & Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 5. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela, ruta 34 km 227, CP 2300 Rafaela, Argentina

Description

knobigera Prakasan & Ramani, 2007, Haemaphysalis

Prakasan, K. & Ramani, M. (2007) Two new species of ixodid ticks (Acarina: Ixodida) from Kerala, India. International Journal of Zoological Research, 3, 169–177.

Type depository: DA: holotype (male) and paratypes (males and females)

Type locality: Chelari Cattle Market, Malappuran District, State of Kerala, India

Type host: cow

Comments: Haemaphysalus knobigera is a poorly described species considered provisionally valid in Guglielmone et al. (2009, 2014) and others.

Notes

Published as part of Robbins, Richard G., Nava, Santiago, Ronai, Isobel, Chong, Kaylin L. & Guglielmone, Alberto A., 2025, Type specimens of the world's hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names, pp. 1-287 in Zootaxa 5606 (1) on page 119, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15215074

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/15215074 (URL)
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References

  • Guglielmone, A. A., Robbins, R. G., Apanaskevich, D. A., Petney, T. N., Estrada-Pena, A. & Horak, I. G. (2009) Comments on controversial tick (Acari: Ixodida) species names and species described or resurrected from 2003 to 2008. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 48, 311-327. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-009-9246-2
  • Guglielmone, A. A. & Nava, S. (2014) Names for Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): valid, synonyms, incertae sedis, nomina dubia, nomina nuda, lapsus, incorrect and suppressed names - with notes on confusions and misidentifications. Zootaxa, 3767 (1), 1-256. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3767.1.1