Haemaphysalis simplex Neumann, 1897

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 : 192-193

146. Haemaphysalis simplex Neumann, 1897 .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Afrosoricida : Tenrecidae . Adults and nymphs have occasionally been recorded from Primates : Indriidae ; adults alone have been collected from Rodentia : Muridae , and Pelecaniformes : Threskiornithidae , while nymphs have been found on Primates : Cheirogaleidae . There are no records of Haemaphysalis simplex causing human parasitism.

M: Neumann (1897)

F: Hoogstraal (1953a)

N: Neumann (1897)

L: Uilenberg et al. (1979); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Hoogstraal (1953a), Uilenberg et al. (1979)

F: Uilenberg et al. (1979)

N: Hoogstraal (1953a), Uilenberg et al. (1979)

L: none

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) list the larva of Haemaphysalis simplex as undescribed, but it was described in Uilenberg et al. (1979).