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Haemaphysalis kashmirensis Hoogstraal and Varma 1962

Description

75. Haemaphysalis kashmirensis Hoogstraal and Varma, 1962.

An Oriental species (see note below) whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae; larvae and nymphs are commonly recovered from Squamata: Lacertidae. Adult ticks have been rarely recovered from Squamata: Agamidae, and nymphs from Rodentia: Muridae and Sciuridae. There are no bona fide records of Haemaphysalis kashmirensis causing human parasitism.

M: Hoogstraal and Varma (1962)

F: Hoogstraal and Varma (1962)

N: Hoogstraal and McCarthy (1965)

L: Hoogstraal and McCarthy (1965)

Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal and Kim (1985), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

F: Hoogstraal and Kim (1985), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

N: Hoogstraal and Kim (1985), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

L: Hoogstraal and Kim (1985), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

Note: there are records of Haemaphysalis kashmirensis from the Palearctic Zoogeographic Region, but they are treated as doubtful in Guglielmone and Robbins (2018) and here.

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 page 171, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340

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References

  • Hoogstraal, H. & Varma, M. G. R. (1962) Haemaphysalis cornupunctata sp. n. and H. kashmirensis sp. n. from Kashmir, with notes on H. sundrai Sharif and H. sewelli Sharif of India and Pakistan (Ixodoidea: Ixodidae). Journal of Parasitology, 48, 185 - 194. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3275561
  • Hoogstraal, H. & McCarthy, V. C. (1965) Hosts and distribution of Haemaphysalis kashmirensis with descriptions of immature stages and definition of the subgenus Herpetobia Canestrini (resurrected). Journal of Parasitology, 51, 674 - 679. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3276257
  • Hoogstraal, H. & Kim, K. C. (1985) Tick and mammal coevolution, with emphasis on Haemaphysalis. In: Kim, K. C. (Ed.), Coevolution of parasitic arthropods and mammals. John Wiley & Sons, New York and other cities, pp. 505 - 568.
  • Geevarghese, G. & Mishra, A. C. (2011) Haemaphysalis ticks of India. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 260 pp.
  • Guglielmone, A. A. & Robbins, R. G. (2018) Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) parasitizing humans. A global overview. Springer, Cham, 314 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 95552 - 0