Haemaphysalis minuta Kohls, 1950b

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 : 178-179

99. Haemaphysalis minuta Kohls, 1950b .

An Oriental species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Galliformes : Phasianidae . Adults alone have been collected from Carnivora : Viverridae , while immature stages have been recovered from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Primates : Cercopithecidae , Rodentia : Hystricidae and Muridae , Cuculiformes : Cuculidae , and Passeriformes (several families). There no records of Haemaphysalis minuta causing human parasitism.

M: Kohls (1950b)

F: Santos Dias (1956b), although this description is treated as conditionally valid in Guglielmone et al. (2014); see note below

N: Trapido et al. 1964a)

L: Trapido et al. 1964a)

Redescriptions

M: Santos Dias (1956b), Trapido et al. (1964a), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

F: Trapido et al. (1964a), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

N: Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

L: Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

Note: Santos Dias (1956b) states that one male and four females of Haemaphysalis minuta collected in Sri Lanka were kept in the Museum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris) as types of Haemaphysalis spinigera . These ticks are mentioned as the second lot of Haemaphysalis spinigera in Neumann (1897, page 354), but according to Santos Dias (1956b), bona fide Haemaphysalis spinigera are deposited in the first lot. Trapido et al. (1964a) state that one relevant morphological character of segment 3 of the palps of the female of Haemaphysalis minuta was not included in the description of Santos Dias (1956) but did not question its validity. Nevertheless, the female of Haemaphysalis minuta is listed as undescribed in Camicas et al. (1998).