9. Hyalomma franchinii Tonelli Rondelli, 1932 .

A Palearctic species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae and Camelidae; larvae and nymphs are commonly recovered from Squamata: Lacertidae . Adult ticks alone have been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae and Camelidae, Perissodactyla: Equidae, and Testudines: Testudinidae; nymphs alone have been recovered from Squamata: Agamidae, and Rodentia: Muridae . There are no bona fide records of Hyalomma franchinii causing human parasitism.

M: Tonelli Rondelli (1932), under the name Hyalomma tunesiacum franchinii and given its current status in Hoogstraal and Kaiser (1958)

F: Hoogstraal (1956a), under the name Hyalomma species N °1 near excavatum, as explained in Apanaskevich et al. (2008a)

N: Apanaskevich et al. (2008a)

L: Apanaskevich et al. (2008a)

Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal (1956a, under the name Hyalomma species N °1 near excavatum), Hoogstraal and Kaiser (1958), Apanaskevich et al. (2008a)

F: Hoogstraal and Kaiser (1958), Apanaskevich et al. (2008a)

N: none

L: none