45. Haemaphysalis elongata Neumann, 1897 .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Afrosori-cida: Tenricidae. All parasitic stages have been collected from Tenricidae; adults have occasionally been recovered from Rodentia: Muridae; while nymphs have been taken from Carnivora: Eupleridae, and Erinaceomorpha: Erinaceidae . Haemaphysalis elongata is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1897)

F: Neumann (1897)

N: Hoogstraal et al. (1974)

L: Hoogstraal et al. (1974)

Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal (1953a), Hoogstraal et al. (1974), Uilenberg et al. (1979); see note below

F: Hoogstraal (1953a), Hoogstraal et al. (1974), Uilenberg et al. (1979); see note below

N: Uilenberg et al. (1979)

L: Uilenberg et al. (1979)

Note: Hoogstraal (1953a) explains that the female of Haemaphysalis elongata depicted in Nuttall and Warburton (1915) is, in fact, Haemaphysalis tiptoni, while the male described under that name in the same publication does not represent Haemaphysalis elongata .