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Hyalomma nitidum Schulze 1920

Description

19. Hyalomma nitidum Schulze, 1920.

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae. All parasitic stages have been collected from Lagomorpha: Leporidae; adults alone have been taken from Artiodactyla: Bovidae and Suidae, Carnivora: Canidae, and Perissodactyla: Equidae; while nymphs and larvae have been recovered from Rodentia: Muridae. There are no records of Hyalomma nitidum causing human parasitism.

M: Schulze (1920)

F: Schulze (1920)

N: Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a)

L: Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a)

Redescriptions

M: Schulze and Schlottke (1929a) and Kratz (1940), under the name Hyalomma impressum nitidum, Tomassone et al. (2005), Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a)

F: Schulze and Schlottke (1929a) and Kratz (1940), under the name Hyalomma impressum nitidum, Tomassone et al. (2005), Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a)

N: none

L: none

Note: Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a) treat Hyalomma nitidum as a valid species but leave open the possibility that it is conspecific with Hyalomma truncatum. Sands et al. (2017b) presented molecular evidence indicating that Hyalomma nitidum is most probably a synonym of the “northern lineage” of Hyalomma truncatum. See also Hyalomma albiparmatum for a discussion of the difficulties involved in morphologically separating Hyalomma albiparmatum, Hyalomma nitidum and Hyalomma truncatum.

Notes

Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, pp. 1-322 in Zootaxa 4871 (1) on pages 208-209, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Schulze
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Ixodida
Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Hyalomma
Species
nitidum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hyalomma nitidum Schulze, 1920 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020

References

  • Schulze, P. (1920) Bestimmungstabelle fur das Zeckengenus Hyalomma Koch. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 5, 189 - 196. [this reference is usually cited as published in 1919]
  • Apanaskevich, D. A. & Horak, I. G. (2008 a) The genus Hyalomma. VI. Systematics of H. (Euhyalomma) truncatum and the closely related species, H. (E.) albiparmatum and H. (E.) nitidum (Acari: Ixodidae). Experimental and Applied Acarology, 44, 115 - 136. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10493 - 008 - 9136 - z
  • Schulze, P. & Schlottke, E. (1929 a) Bestimmungstabellen fur das Zeckengenus Hyalomma Koch s. str. Sitzungsberichte und Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Rostock (1927 - 1928), 2, 32 - 46. [this reference is often cited as published in 1930]
  • Kratz, W. (1940) Die Zeckengattung Hyalomma Koch. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde, 11, 510 - 562. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 02122017
  • Tomassone, L., Camicas, J. L., De Meneghi, D., Di Giulio, A. & Uilenberg, G. (2005) A note on Hyalomma nitidum, its distribution and its hosts. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 35, 341 - 355. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10493 - 004 - 2210 - 2
  • Sands, A. F., Apanaskevich, D. A., Matthee, S., Horak, I. G, Harrison, A., Karim, S., Mohammad, M. K., Mumcuoglu, K. Y., Rajakarua, R. S., Santos-Silva, M. M. & Matthee, C. (2017 b) Effects of tectonics and large scale climatic changes on the evolutionary history of Hyalomma ticks. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 114, 153 - 165. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2017.06.002