Anomalohimalaya cricetuli Teng and Huang, 1981

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 : 129-130

1. Anomalohimalaya cricetuli Teng and Huang, 1981 .

A Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Rodentia : Cricetidae , but nymphs and larvae have also been collected from Rodentia : Muridae . There are no records of Anomalohimalaya cricetuli causing human parasitism.

M: Teng and Huang (1981)

F: Teng and Huang (1981)

N: Teng and Jiang (1991)

L: Teng and Jiang (1991); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Teng and Jiang (1991), Filippova (1997), Yu et al. (1997)

F: Teng and Jiang (1991), Filippova and Bardzimashvily (1992), Filippova (1997), Yu et al. (1997)

N: Filippova and Bardzimashvily (1992), Filippova (1997), Yu et al. (1997)

L: Filippova (1997), Yu et al. (1997); see note below

Note: Deng et al. (1999) treat Anomalohimalaya cricetuli as a synonym of Anomalohimalaya lotozkyi without providing evidence for this proposal (Guglielmone et al. 2010, 2014). Camicas et al. (1998) ignore the descriptions of the larva and nymph of Anomalohimalaya cricetuli in Teng and Jiang (1981) and others published before 1998. Teng and Jiang (1991) depict the larva of A. cricetuli as having eyes, but Filippova and Bardzimashvily (1992) state that the larva is eyeless, adding that Teng and Jiang (1991) probably confused smooth areas of the scutum with eyes. Nevertheless, Yu et al. (1997) repeated the figure in Teng and Jiang (1991) showing the larva with eyes.