Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides Supino, 1897

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 : 224

33. Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides Supino, 1897 .

An Australasian, Oriental and Palearctic species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae . All parasitic stages have been collected from Carnivora : Canidae , and Rodentia : Muridae ; adults and nymphs have been recovered from Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Cervidae ; adult ticks alone have been taken from Mammalia (several orders), and rarely from Passeriformes : Turdidae , and Strigiformes (unknown family). Nymphs alone have been found on Carnivora : Herpestidae , while nymphs and larvae have been collected from Soricomorpha : Soricidae , Cuculiformes : Cuculidae , and Passeriformes : Timaliidae (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Liyanaarachchi et al. 2015, Kuo et al. 2017, Kumar et al. 2018). Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Supino (1897a), under the name Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides ruber

F: Supino (1897a), under the name Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides niger and given its current status in Neumann (1897)

N: Teng and Jiang (1991)

L: Kadarsan (1971); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Neumann (1902) , Sharif (1928), Krijgsman and Ponto (1932), Zumpt (1943a), Itagaki et al. (1944, 1959), Toumanoff (1944), Anastos (1950), Santos Dias (1954a), Teng and Jiang (1991), Walker et al. (2000)

F: Neumann (1902) , Sharif (1928), Krijgsman and Ponto (1932), Zumpt (1943a), Itagaki et al. (1944, 1959), Toumanoff (1944), Anastos (1950), Santos Dias (1954a), Teng and Jiang (1991), Walker et al. (2000)

N: Lin et al. (1991), Walker et al. (2000)

L: Lin et al. (1991), Teng and Jiang (1991), Walker et al. (2000); see note below

Note: the larva of Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides depicted in Kadarsan (1971) from laboratory-reared material as well as the larval description in Teng and Jiang (1991) differ morphologically from the larva of Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides redescribed in Walker et al. (2000) using field-collected specimens. Camicas et al. (1998) list Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides as an Oriental species, but Guglielmone et al. (2017) state that this taxon has also been found in the Australasian and Palearctic Regions. Li et al. (2018) present molecular evidence to argue that more than one species may exist under the name Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides .