Haemaphysalis megalaimae, Robbins & Nava & Ronai & Chong & Guglielmone, 2025

Robbins, Richard G., Nava, Santiago, Ronai, Isobel, Chong, Kaylin L. & Guglielmone, Alberto A., 2025, Type specimens of the world’s hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names, Zootaxa 5606 (1), pp. 1-287 : 139

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0851EDA-FE18-4F87-9245-B108786B22F4
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Haemaphysalis megalaimae
status

Treatment

Type host: the holotype specimen was collected from a twig megalaimae Rajagopalan, 1963 View in CoL , Haemaphysalis

Rajagopalan, P.K. (1963) Haemaphysalis megalaimae sp. n., a new tick from the small green barbet ( Megalaima viridis ) in India. Journal of Parasitology, 49, 340–345.

Type depositories: USNTC: holotype (male) and paratypes (males, females and nymphs) ; BMNH?, VRC and ZSI: paratypes (males, females and nymphs)

Type locality: Sagar , Shimoga District, State of Karnataka, India

Type host: Megalaima viridis

Comments: Keirans & Hillyard (2001) did not list specimens of Haemaphysalis megalaimae in their catalog of BMNH type specimens.