Haemaphysalis (Rhipistoma) houyi Nuttall & Warburton, 1915

Sylla, Massamba, Ndiaye, Mady, Souris, Marc & Gonzalez, Jean-Paul, 2018, Ticks (Acari: Ixodida) of the genus Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844 in Senegal: a review of host associations, chorology, and identification, Acarologia 58 (4), pp. 928-945 : 931

Haemaphysalis (Rhipistoma) houyi Nuttall & Warburton, 1915

Haemaphysalis (Rhipistoma) houyi was exclusively collected from the African Ground Squirrel, Xerus erythropus (Desmarest, 1817) ( Mammalia, Rodentia , Sciuridae ) ( Table 4). Records of this African tick in Senegal are from several locations: Bandia Forest reserve (14°35’N, 17°01’W, Mbour Dpt., Thies Reg.); Saboya Forest reserve (13°39’N, 16°07’W, Nioro-du-Rip Dpt., Kaolack Reg.); 10km North of Kedougou (12°33’N, 12°11’W, Kedougou Dpt., Kedougou Reg.); Santhiaba Mandjak (12°22’N, 16°33’W, Ziguinchor Dpt., Casamance Reg.); National Park of Basse Casamance, NPBC (12°N, 16°W, Oussouye Dpt., Casamance Reg.); Fadiga (12°33’N, 12°12’W, Kedougou Dpt., Kedougou Reg.); from the area between Sare Dioulde and Sinthian Koundara (13°27’N, 14°20’W, Velingara Dpt., Kolda Reg.) ( Figure 3 ).

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Figure 3 Collecting sites ofHaemaphysalis (Rhipistoma) houyi indicated in red; blue dots show localization of all other collection sites.