Haematopinus tuberculatus (Burmeister, 1838)

Pediculus tuberculatus Burmeister, 1838 *: Species 20.

Haematopinus tuberculatus (Burmeister, 1839) [sic]; Lucas 1852: 529, pl. 11: fig. 2.

Pediculus tuberculatus Burmeister, 1839 [sic]; Nitzsch 1864: 32.

Pediculus punctatus Rudow, 1869: 167 .

Haematopinus tuberculatus (Burmeister); Giebel 1874: 46.

Haematopinus punctatus (Rudow, 1869); Giebel 1874: 47.

Haematopinus tuberculatus (Burmeister); Piaget 1880: 650, pl. 53: fig. 2.

Haematopinus tuberculatus (Burmeister, 1839) [sic]; Ferris 1933: 455, figs 267–269.

Haematopinus tuberculatus (Burmeister, 1839) [sic]; Ferris 1951: 95, figs 43–44.

Haematopinus tuberculatus (Burmeister, 1839) [sic]; Stimie & van der Merwe 1968: 186, figs 1–2.

Haematopinus tuberculatus; Mustaffa-Babjee 1969: 37.

Haematopinus tuberculatus (Burmeister); Meleney & Kim 1974: 518, figs 19–20, 25, 28, 31.

Haematopinus tuberculatus (Burmeister, 1839) [sic]; Durden & Musser, 1994: 17.

Type host: “ Bos bubalo ” = Bubalus bubalis (Linnaeus, 1758) — Asian water buffalo.

Malaysian host: Bubalus bubalis .

Malaysian localities: “West Malaysia ” (Mustaffa-Babjee (1969); Kota Bharu (Kelantan) Peninsular Malaysia (Ferris 1933); Sungai Sekong (Sabah) Malaysian Borneo (Ferris 1933).

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

Remarks: Ferris (1933, 1951) redescribed and illustrated Haematopinus tuberculatus, a louse species originally described from India, now known from the warmer regions of the globe (Durden & Musser 1994). Haematopinus tuberculatus mainly infests water buffaloes, but there are reports from camels and other unrelated hosts, which were in close contact with buffaloes (Ferris 1933). Several pathogens have been detected in Haematopinus tuberculatus, such as Anaplasma marginale, Bartonella sp., Brucella abortus and Trypanosoma vivax (see Schafer da Silva et al. 2013; Neglia et al. 2013; Promrangsee et al. 2019; Gonçalves et al. 2020; Hernández-Velasco et al. 2020; Souza-Dyonisio et al. 2021).

* For clarification of Burmeister’s date of publication, see Durden et al. (2014) and Palma (2017).