Haemaphysalis aciculifer, Warburton, 1913

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 : 7

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0851EDA-FE18-4F87-9245-B108786B22F4

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8263FE48-FFC3-4213-FF23-FE10FB6AFC29

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Haemaphysalis aciculifer
status

 

aciculifer View in CoL rugosa Santos Dias, 1956 , Haemaphysalis

Santos Dias, J.A.T. (1956) Sobre duas entidades do género Haemaphysalis C.L. Koch, 1844 . Memória e Estudos do Museu Zoológico da Universidad de Coimbra, 242, 1–9.

Type depository: BMNH: holotype (female) ( Santos Dias 1956b, Hoogstraal & El Kammah 1972, Keirans 1985) Type locality: Wandara, Ghana

Type host: Redunca arundinum

Current status: a synonym of Haemaphysalis rugosa and its original name, as discussed in Hoogstraal & El Kammah (1972). The current status of Haemaphysalis aciculifer rugosa , as Haemaphysalis rugosa , was also established by Hoogstraal & El Kammah (1972).

Comments: contrary to the above-cited authors, Keirans & Hillyard (2001) did not recognize the presence of the holotype of Haemaphysalis aciculifer rugosa in their list of types deposited in the BMNH .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Haemaphysalis

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