138. Haemaphysalis rugosa Santos Dias, 1956b .
An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae, but all parasitic stages have been collected from Carnivora: Herpestidae and Viverridae . Adults alone have been removed from Bovidae, while immature stages have been recovered from Lagomorpha: Leporidae, and Rodentia: Muridae . There are no records of Haemaphysalis rugosa causing human parasitism.
M: Santos Dias (1956b), under the name Haemaphysalis aciculifer rugosa, and given its current status in Hoogstraal and El-Kammah (1972)
F: Hoogstraal and El-Kammah (1972)
N: Camicas (1978)
L: Camicas (1978)
Redescriptions
M: Hoogstraal and El-Kammah (1972), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)
F: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)
N: none
L: none
Note: Haemaphysalis rugosa was originally identified as Haemaphysalis aciculifer in Nuttall and Warburton (1915), as stated in Hoogstraal and El-Kammah (1972).