Haematopinus quadripertusus Fahrenholz, 1916

Haematopinus quadripertusus Fahrenholz, 1916: 19, figs 15–17.

Haematopinus parviprocursus Fahrenholz, 1916: 21 .

“ Haematopinus eurysternus (Nitzsch) ” [sic]; Ferris 1933: 448. Not Haematopinus eurysternus Denny, 1842 .

Haematopinus quadripertusus Fahrenholz, 1916; Bruce 1947: 590.

Haematopinus quadripertusus Fahrenholz, 1916; Creighton & Dennis 1947: 911.

Haematopinus quadripertusus Fahrenholz, 1916; Roberts 1950: 136, figs 1A–C, 2B.

“ Haematopinus eurysternus (Nitzsch) ” [sic]; Ferris 1951: 88. Not Haematopinus eurysternus Denny, 1842 .

Haematopinus palpebrae Gretillat, 1957: 167, figs 1–3. In part.

“ Haematopinus eurysternus (Nitzsch) ” [sic]; Stimie & van der Merwe 1968: 190. Not Haematopinus eurysternus Denny, 1842 .

Haemotopinus [sic] quadripertusus; Mustaffa-Babjee 1969: 37.

Haematopinus quadripertusus Fahrenholz, 1916; Meleney & Kim 1974: 513, figs 4–17, 21, 23, 26, 29, 32.

Haematopinus quadripertusus Fahrenholz, 1916; Kim et al. 1986: 84, pl. 19.

Haematopinus quadripertusus Fahrenholz, 1916; Durden & Musser 1994: 17.

Type host: Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 —Domestic cattle.

Malaysian host: Bos taurus .

Malaysian localities: “West Malaysia ” (Mustaffa-Babjee (1969); Puchong (Selangor) Peninsular Malaysia (Meleney & Kim 1974); Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia (Meleney & Kim 1974).

Geographical distribution: Worldwide in subtropical and tropical zones (Durden & Musser 1994; Price & Graham 1997).

Remarks: Both Haematopinus quadripertusus and H. parviprocursus were described from Africa, but later synonymized under H. eurysternus by Ferris (1933). However, Bruce (1947) and Creighton & Dennis (1947) resurrected H. quadripertusus as a distinct species based on specimens collected from the tails of cattle in Florida. Roberts (1950) provided a morphological comparison and a dichotomous key to distinguish H. quadripertusus from H. eurysternus, and Meleney & Kim (1974) revised the three morphologically close species that infest cattle.

The first Malaysian record of H. quadripertusus in Ferris (1933) is uncertain, as at the time H. quadripertusus was still a junior synonym of H. eurysternus (see H. eurysternus for details and locality in Malaysia). Currently, knowledge of H. quadripertusus in Malaysia is poor, and it has not been recorded from Malaysian Borneo. Several papers have reported a number of pathogens detected in Haematopinus quadripertusus, including Bartonella sp. and the zoonotic Rickettsia africae Kelly et al. 1996 (Gutiérrez et al. 2014, Promrangsee et al. 2019, Ehlers et al. 2020).