Haemaphysalis calva Nuttall and Warburton, 1915

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 : 154

22. Haemaphysalis calva Nuttall and Warburton, 1915 .

An Oriental species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Cervidae , but they have also been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Suidae , and Carnivora : Viverridae and Ursidae . There are no records of Haemaphysalis calva causing human parasitism.

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), under the name Haemaphysalis calvus , and amended in Hoogstraal and Kim (1985)

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), under the name Haemaphysalis calvus

N: Hoogstraal and Wassef (1981a), under the name Haemaphysalis calvus ; see note below

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Toumanoff (1944), Hoogstraal and Wassef (1981a) and Tanskul and Inlao (1989), under the name Haemaphysalis calvus

F: Toumanoff (1944), Hoogstraal and Wassef (1981a) and Tanskul and Inlao (1989), under the name Haemaphysalis calvus

N: none

Note: the description of the nymph of Haemaphysalis calva is based on a nymphal exoskeleton ( Hoogstraal & Wassef 1981a).