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Rhipicephalus ramachandrai Dhanda, Hoogstraal & Bhat 1970, sp. n.

  • 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

ramachandrai Dhanda, Hoogstraal & Bhat, 1970, Haemaphysalis

Dhanda, V., Hoogstraal, H. & Bhat, H.R. (1970) Haemaphysalis (Kaiseriana) ramachandrai sp. n. (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae), a parasite of man and domestic and wild mammals in northern India and Nepal. Journal of Parasitology, 56, 823–831.

Type depositories: VRC: holotype (male) and paratypes (males, females, nymphs and larvae); BMNH, IM, USNTC and ZIAC: paratypes (males, females, nymphs and larvae)

Type locality: Chunabhatti, Jalpaiguri District, State of West Bengal, India

Type host: the holotype specimen was collected from vegetation

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 182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15215074

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