Haemaphysalis rugosa Santos Dias, 1956b

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 : 190

138. Haemaphysalis rugosa Santos Dias, 1956b .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , but all parasitic stages have been collected from Carnivora : Herpestidae and Viverridae . Adults alone have been removed from Bovidae , while immature stages have been recovered from Lagomorpha : Leporidae , and Rodentia : Muridae . There are no records of Haemaphysalis rugosa causing human parasitism.

M: Santos Dias (1956b), under the name Haemaphysalis aciculifer rugosa , and given its current status in Hoogstraal and El-Kammah (1972)

F: Hoogstraal and El-Kammah (1972)

N: Camicas (1978)

L: Camicas (1978)

Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal and El-Kammah (1972), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

N: none

L: none

Note: Haemaphysalis rugosa was originally identified as Haemaphysalis aciculifer in Nuttall and Warburton (1915) , as stated in Hoogstraal and El-Kammah (1972).