Haemaphysalis nepalensis Hoogstraal, 1962a

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 : 181

106. Haemaphysalis nepalensis Hoogstraal, 1962a .

An Oriental and Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae ; adults alone have been collected from Carnivora : Felidae and Ursidae , and Rodentia (unknown family). Haemaphysalis nepalensis is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Hoogstraal (1962a)

F: Hoogstraal (1962a)

N: Dhanda (1964b)

L: Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

Redescriptions

M: Teng (1982a), Teng and Jiang (1991)

F: Teng (1982a), Teng and Jiang (1991)

N: Teng and Jiang (1991), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

L: none

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) list Haemaphysalis nepalensis as an Oriental species, but Guglielmone et al. (2014) state that it has also been found in the Palearctic Region.