149. Haemaphysalis spinigera Neumann, 1897 .

An Oriental species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Mammalia (several orders), but they have also been collected from Galliformes: Phasianidae (rarely as adults). Larvae and nymphs are also commonly recovered from Aves (several orders). Haemaphysalis spinigera is a very frequent parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1897)

F: Neumann (1897)

N: Trapido et al. (1964a)

L: Trapido et al. (1964a)

Redescriptions

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Sharif (1928), Toumanoff (1944), Santos Dias (1954a), Trapido et al. (1964a), Ghalsasi and Dhanda (1974), Teng and Jiang (1991), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Sharif (1928), Toumanoff (1944), Santos Dias (1954a), Trapido et al. (1964a), Ghalsasi and Dhanda (1974), Teng and Jiang (1991), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

N: Ghalsasi and Dhanda (1974), Teng and Jiang (1991), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

L: Ghalsasi and Dhanda (1974), Teng and Jiang (1991), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

Note: see Haemaphysalis minuta for its confusion as type material of Haemaphysalis spinigera . Records of this tick from Nigeria (Afrotropical Zoogeographic Region) in Isaac et al. (2019) are most probably a consequence of misidentification.