Haemaphysalis indoflava Dhanda and Bhat, 1968b

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 : 169

69. Haemaphysalis indoflava Dhanda and Bhat, 1968b .

An Oriental species whose adults have been found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Suidae , and Carnivora : Canidae . Haemaphysalis indoflava is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Shariff (1928), under the name Haemaphysalis flava , corrected in Dhanda and Bhat (1968b).

F: Shariff (1928), under the name Haemaphysalis flava

N: Shariff (1928), under the name Haemaphysalis flava ; see note below

L: Dhanda and Bhat (1970); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Dhanda and Bhat (1968b), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

F: Dhanda and Bhat (1968b), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

N: Dhanda and Bhat (1970), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

L: Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) state that the larva and nymph of Haemaphysalis indoflava are undescribed, but descriptions and redescriptions published before 1998 are treated here as valid. Prior to the study of Dhanda and Bhat (1968b), Haemaphysalis indoflava was confused with Haemaphysalis flava .