Haemaphysalis colasbelcouri ( Santos Dias, 1958b )

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 : 157

31. Haemaphysalis colasbelcouri ( Santos Dias, 1958b) .

An Oriental species whose adults have been found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Cervidae . Haemaphysalis colasbelcouri is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Teng and Jiang (1991), under the name Haemaphysalis vietnamensis , a synonym of Haemaphysalis colasbelcouri

F: Santos Dias (1958b), under the name Aponomma colasbelcouri and given its current status in Santos Dias (1985)

N: Ding and Ying (1996), under the name Haemaphysalis vietnamensis ; see note below

L: Ding and Ying (1996), under the name Haemaphysalis vietnamensis ; see note below

Redescriptions

M: Ding and Ying (1996) under the name Haemaphysalis vietnamensis

F: Hoogstraal and Wilson (1966), Hoogstraal and Kim (1985), Teng and Jiang (1991) and Ding and Ying (1996), all under the name Haemaphysalis vietnamensis

N: none

L: none

Note: Kolonin (2009) believes that Haemaphysalis colasbelcouri is probably a synonym of Haemaphysalis vietnamensis , and more than one species may exist under this name. Camicas et al. (1998) treat the larva and nymph of Haemaphysalis colasbelcouri as undescribed, ignoring the descriptions listed above.