Haemaphysalis zumpti Hoogstraal and El Kammah, 1974

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 : 200-201

173. Haemaphysalis zumpti Hoogstraal and El Kammah, 1974 .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Carnivora : Herpestidae and Hyaenidae , and Rodentia : Sciuridae ; adults and nymphs have been collected from Carnivora : Viverridae ; adults alone have been recovered from Carnivora (several orders). There are no records of Haemaphysalis zumpti causing human parasitism.

M: Hoogstraal and El Kammah (1974)

F: Hoogstraal and El Kammah (1974)

N: Hoogstraal and El Kammah (1974)

L: Hoogstraal and El Kammah (1974)

Redescriptions

M: Horak et al. (2018)

F: Horak et al. (2018)

N: none

L: none

Note: see Haemaphysalis spinulosa for a discussion of the problems attending identification of southern African species in the Haemaphysalis leachi group, to which Haemaphysalis zumpti belongs.