Haemaphysalis (Kaiseriana) rugosa Santos Dias, 1956

Sylla, Massamba, Ndiaye, Mady, Souris, Marc & Gonzalez, Jean-Paul, 2018, Ticks (Acari: Ixodida) of the genus Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844 in Senegal: a review of host associations, chorology, and identification, Acarologia 58 (4), pp. 928-945 : 930

Haemaphysalis (Kaiseriana) rugosa Santos Dias, 1956

The African antelope spurred-rugose haemaphysalid, was only recorded from mammals ( Table 2). The first specimens were collected from wild bovid, mongoose and civet in the Niokolo Koba National Park, NKNP (13°N, 13°W, Tambacounda Reg.) in 1971 and recorded as Haemaphysalis aciculifer Warburton, 1913 by Morel (1956), re-identified later by Hoogstraal and El Kammah (1972) as H. (Ka.) rugosa . This species has also been recorded from Kedougou (12°33’N, 12°11’W, Kedougou Department, Kedougou Region), Kolda (12°53’N, 14°57’W, Kolda Dpt., Kolda Reg.), and Sangalkam (14°47’N, 17°13’W, Dakar Dpt., Dakar Reg.) ( Figure 1 ).

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Figure 1 Collecting sites ofHaemaphysalis (Kaiseriana) rugosa indicated in red; blue dots show localization of all other collection sites.