37. Haemaphysalis cuspidata Warburton, 1910 .

An Oriental species whose adults and immature stages have been found on Mammalia (several orders) and Cuculiformes: Cuculidae; adults alone have been collected from Carnivora: Herpestidae, and Lagomorpha: Leporidae; immature stages alone have been recovered from Primates: Cercopithecidae, Rodentia: Hystricidae and Muridae, Soricomorpha: Soricidae, Bucerotiformes: Bucerotidae, Galliformes: Phasianidae, and Passeriformes: Sylviidae . Haemaphysalis cuspidata is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Warburton (1910)

F: Warburton (1910)

N: Warburton (1910)

L: Nuttall and Warburton (1915); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Toumanoff (1944), Trapido et al. (1964a), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Toumanoff (1944), Trapido et al. (1964a), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

N: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Trapido et al. (1964a), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

L: Trapido et al. (1964a), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

Note: Trapido et al. (1964a) doubt that the larva described in Nuttall and Warburton (1915) represents bona fide Haemaphysalis cuspidata .