Haemaphysalis sulcata Canestrini and Fanzago, 1878

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, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 195

153. Haemaphysalis sulcata Canestrini and Fanzago, 1878 .

Chiefly a Palearctic species, with a few records from the Afrotropical and Oriental Regions, whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae ; larvae and nymphs are commonly recovered from Squamata (several families). All parasitic stages have been recovered from Testudines : Testudinidae (adult ticks rarely); adults and nymphs have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , and Carnivora : Canidae ; adult ticks alone have been found on Mammalia (several orders); larvae and nymphs have been recovered from Carnivora : Mustelidae , Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae , Lagomorpha : Leporidae and Ochotonidae , and Rodentia : Cricetidae , Muridae and Sciuridae , as well as Aves (several orders); while larvae alone have been collected from Chiroptera : Vespertilionidae , and Rodentia : Calomyscidae and Dipodidae . Haemaphysalis sulcata is a frequent parasite of humans.

M: Olenev (1928), under the name Haemaphysalis cholodkovskyi , a synonym of Haemaphysalis sulcata ; see note below

F: Larousse (1925b), under the name Haemaphysalis nicollei , another synonym of Haemaphysalis sulcata ; see note below

N: Canestrini and Fanzago (1878)

L: Pospelova-Shtrom (1935a)

Redescriptions

M: Pomerantzev (1950), Emchuk (1960), Feider (1965), Nosek and Sixl (1972), Hoogstraal et al. (1981), Teng and Jiang (1991), Filippova (1997), Yu et al. (1997), Walker A.R. et al. (2003), Estrada-Peña et al. (2004, 2017), Hosseini-Chegeni et al. (2014), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011); see note below

F: Pomerantzev (1950), Emchuk (1960), Feider (1965), Nosek and Sixl (1972), Hoogstraal et al. (1981), Teng and Jiang (1991), Filippova (1997), Yu et al. (1997), Walker A.R. et al. (2003), Estrada-Peña et al. (2004, 2017), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011); see note below

N: Pospelova-Shtrom (1940), Emchuk (1960), Feider (1965), Nosek and Sixl (1972), Hoogstraal et al. (1981), Filippova (1997), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017); see note below

L: Pospelova-Shtrom (1940), Emchuk (1960), Feider (1965), Nosek and Sixl (1972), Hoogstraal et al. (1981), Filippova (1997), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017); see note below

Note: Hoogstraal and McCarthy (1965) state that Haemaphysalis sulcata was considered an invalid name until it was reinstated by Pospelova-Shtrom (1935a). Nevertheless, Haemaphysalis sulcata appears difficult to identify with certainty. Thus, Olenev (1928) described Haemaphysalis cholodkovskyi and redescribed it in Olenev (1931a), although it is a synonym of Haemaphysalis sulcata , as explained in Filippova (1997). In the same papers Olenev redescribed Haemaphysalis sulcata but, according to Filippova (1997), confused this species with Haemaphysalis parva . Filippova (1997) redescribed the male, female, nymph and larva of Haemaphysalis sulcata and presented information concerning intraspecific morphological variation; however, there are profound differences in the external morphology of this species as depicted by different authors. The above descriptions and redescriptions may include more than one species under the same name; therefore, significant uncertainties exist concerning the correct definition of Haemaphysalis sulcata .