Haemaphysalis kashmirensis Hoogstraal and Varma, 1962

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 : 171

75. Haemaphysalis kashmirensis Hoogstraal and Varma, 1962 .

An Oriental species (see note below) whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae ; larvae and nymphs are commonly recovered from Squamata : Lacertidae . Adult ticks have been rarely recovered from Squamata : Agamidae , and nymphs from Rodentia : Muridae and Sciuridae . There are no bona fide records of Haemaphysalis kashmirensis causing human parasitism.

M: Hoogstraal and Varma (1962)

F: Hoogstraal and Varma (1962)

N: Hoogstraal and McCarthy (1965)

L: Hoogstraal and McCarthy (1965)

Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal and Kim (1985), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

F: Hoogstraal and Kim (1985), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

N: Hoogstraal and Kim (1985), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

L: Hoogstraal and Kim (1985), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

Note: there are records of Haemaphysalis kashmirensis from the Palearctic Zoogeographic Region, but they are treated as doubtful in Guglielmone and Robbins (2018) and here.