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Haemaphysalis moschisuga Teng 1980

Description

103. Haemaphysalis moschisuga Teng, 1980b.

An Oriental and Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla: Moschidae. Adults alone have been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae, and Lagomorpha: Leporidae, while larvae and nymphs have been recovered from Galliformes: Phasianidae. There are no records of Haemaphysalis moschisuga causing human parasitism.

M: Teng (1980b)

F: Teng (1980b)

N: Teng (1984)

L: Teng (1984)

Redescriptions

M: Teng (1982a), Teng and Jiang (1991)

F: Teng (1982a), Teng and Jiang (1991)

N: Teng and Jiang (1991)

L: Teng and Jiang (1991)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) treat Haemaphysalis moschisuga as a Palearctic species, but Teng and Jiang (1991) and Chen et al. (2010) also found this tick in the Chinese sector of the Oriental Zoogeographic Region.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Teng
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Ixodida
Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Haemaphysalis
Species
moschisuga
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Haemaphysalis moschisuga Teng, 1980 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020

References

  • Teng, K. F. (1980 b) Two new species of Haemaphysalis from China (Acarina: Ixodidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 5, 144 - 149. [in Chinese]
  • Teng, K. F. (1982 a) Acarina: Ixodidae. In: Insects of Xizang (Tibet). Vol. II. Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, pp. 449 - 461. [in Chinese, translation RR 2 by Robbins, F. - M. Y.]
  • Teng, K. F. & Jiang, Z. J (1991) Economic insect fauna of China. Fascicule 39, Acari: Ixodidae. Science Press, Beijing, 355 pp. [in Chinese]
  • Camicas, J. L., Hervy, J. P., Adam, F. & Morel, P. C. (1998) Les tiques du monde. Nomenclature, stades decrits, hotes, repartition (Acarida, Ixodida). Orstom, Paris, 233 pp.
  • Chen, Z., Yang, X., Bu, F., Yang, X., Yang, X. & Liu, J. (2010) Ticks (Acari: Ixodoidea: Argasidae, Ixodidae) of China. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 51, 393 - 404. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10493 - 010 - 9335 - 2