Haemaphysalis formosensis Neumann, 1913b

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 : 163-164

50. Haemaphysalis formosensis Neumann, 1913b .

An Oriental and Palearctic species whose adults and immature stages have been found on Artiodactyla : Cervidae and Suidae , Carnivora : Canidae , Lagomorpha : Leporidae , and Galliformes : Phasianidae ; adults alone have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Moschidae , Carnivora : Ursidae , Pholidota : Manidae , and Rodentia : Hystricidae and Muridae ; immature stages have been recovered from Carnivora : Felidae , Herpestidae and Mustelidae , Chiroptera : Vespertilionidae , Scandentia : Tupaiidae , Charadriiformes : Scolopacidae , and Passeriformes : Corvidae , Muscicapidae and Turdidae (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Iwakami et al. 2014, Khatri-Chhetri et al. 2016, Kuo et al. 2017). There are no records of Haemaphysalis formosensis causing human parasitism.

M: Neumann (1913b)

F: Neumann (1913b)

N: Yamaguti et al. (1971)

L: Yamaguti et al. (1971)

Redescriptions

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Teng and Jiang (1991), Yamauchi and Takada (2015)

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Sugimoto (1937b), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yama-guti (1981), Teng and Jiang (1991), Yamauchi and Takada (2015)

N: Kitaoka (1985), Teng and Jiang (1991), Fujita and Takada (2007)

L: Kitaoka (1985), Teng and Jiang (1991), Fujita and Takada (2007)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) list the larva and nymph of Haemaphysalis formosensis as undescribed, but there are descriptions and redescriptions published before 1998 that are treated here as valid.