Haemaphysalis toxopei Warburton, 1927

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 198

163. Haemaphysalis toxopei Warburton, 1927 .

An Australasian and Oriental species whose adults and the undescribed nymph have been found on Chiroptera : Pteropodidae ; adults alone have been collected from Carnivora : Canidae . There are no records of Haemaphysalis toxopei causing human parasitism.

M: Warburton (1927)

F: Warburton (1927)

N: undescribed

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Krijgsman and Ponto (1932), Toumanoff (1944), Anastos (1950), Hoogstraal (1964a, under the name Haemaphysalis papuana toxopei ); s ee note below

F: Krijgsman and Ponto (1932), Toumanoff (1944), Anastos (1950), Hoogstraal (1964a, under the name Haemaphysalis papuana toxopei ); see note below

Note: Kolonin (2009) does not include Haemaphysalis toxopei as a valid species. There is a confusing statement in the original description of Haemaphysalis toxopei in Warburton (1927) , where the female of this species appears to be the same as the female of Haemaphysalis kinneari . According to Trapido et al. (1964b), Warburton’s (1927) statement is a lapsus; however, Anastos (1950), who reproduced most parts of the description of Haemaphysalis toxopei by Warburton (1927), believes that this tick is probably a synonym of Haemaphysalis kinneari .