Haemaphysalis ornithophila Hoogstraal and Kohls, 1959

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 : 183

114. Haemaphysalis ornithophila Hoogstraal and Kohls, 1959 .

An Oriental and Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages, including the undescribed larva, have been found on Galliformes : Phasianidae ; adults and nymphs have been collected from Passeriformes : Turdidae , adults alone have been recovered from Passeriformes : Pittidae , Chloropseidae and Turdidae ; Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Carnivora : Mustelidae , and Lagomorpha : Leporidae (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Kuo et al. 2017). There are no records of Haemaphysalis ornithophila causing human parasitism.

M: Hoogstraal and Kohls (1959)

F: Hoogstraal and Kohls (1959)

N: Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

L: undescribed.

Redescriptions

M: Teng and Jiang (1991), Tanskul and Inlao (1989), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011), Sun et al. (2012)

F: Teng and Jiang (1991), Tanskul and Inlao (1989), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011), Sun et al. (2012)

N: none

Note: Guglielmone et al. (2014) stated that the nymph of Haemaphysalis ornithophila is undescribed, but this stage was described in Geevarghese and Mishra (2011), as shown in Guglielmone et al. (2015).