Haemaphysalis megaspinosa Saito, 1969

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 : 178

97. Haemaphysalis megaspinosa Saito, 1969 .

A Palearctic species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Cervidae , but all parasitic stages have been collected from Carnivora : Canidae ; adults and nymphs have been recovered from Cervidae , and Perissodactyla : Equidae ; adults and larvae have been removed from Carnivora : Felidae ; adult ticks alone have been found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Suidae , and Carnivora : Procyonidae and Ursidae ( Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Torii et al. 2018). Haemaphysalis megaspinosa is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Saito (1969)

F: Saito (1969)

N: Yamaguti et al. (1971)

L: Yamaguti et al. (1971)

Redescriptions

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

F: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Teng and Jiang (1991), Yamauchi and Takada (2015)

N: Kitaoka (1985), Fujita and Takada (2007)

L: Kitaoka (1985), Fujita and Takada (2007)

Note: Takano et al. (2014) were unable to differentiate Haemaphysalis megaspinosa from Haemaphysalis japonica at the molecular level.