Haemaphysalis muhsamae Santos Dias, 1954a

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 93

106. Haemaphysalis muhsamae Santos Dias, 1954a .

Afrotropical: 1) Botswana, 2) Kenya, 3) Mozambique, 4) South Africa, 5) Tanzania, 6) Zimbabwe ( Tomlinson et al. 2018).

Haemaphysalis muhsamae has proved to be an elusive species, difficult to identify with certainty and considered provisionally valid in Guglielmone & Nava (2014) and Guglielmone et al. (2014). Our review of Haemaphysalis muhsamae is based on Tomlinson et al. (2018), who validated this species, redescribed the male and female, and designated a neotype. These authors stated that redescriptions of Haemaphysalis muhsamae , most of them under the name Haemaphysalis leachi muhsami , in Hoogstraal (1956a) and others, are based on doubtful material. Tomlinson et al. (2018) also found that many specimens of Haemaphysalis muhsamae in collections were catalogued as Haemaphysalis spinulosa .

Ngoy et al. (2021) found an alleged specimen of Haemaphysalis muhsamae in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but this diagnosis requires confirmation.