Haemaphysalis leporispalustris ( Packard, 1869 )

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 : 175-176

90. Haemaphysalis leporispalustris ( Packard, 1869) .

A Nearctic and Neotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Lagomorpha : Leporidae , but they have also been collected from Mammalia (several orders), Galliformes : Phasianidae and Odontophoridae , Passeriformes (several families), and Strigiformes : Strigidae ; adults and nymphs have been taken from Columbiformes : Columbidae ; immature stages have been recovered from Aves (several orders) ( Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Lee et al. 2019). Haemaphysalis leporispalustris is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1897) , under the name Haemaphysalis leporis ; see note below

F: Packard (1869), under the name Ixodes leporispalustris and given its current status in Nuttall and Warburton (1915)

N: Neumann (1897) , under the name Haemaphysalis leporis ; see note below

L: Neumann (1897) , under the name Haemaphysalis leporis ; see note below

Redescriptions

M: Banks (1908), Hooker et al. (1912), Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Cooley (1946), Vogelsang and Santos Dias (1953b), Furman and Loomis (1984), Lindquist et al. (2016), Nava et al. (2017), Bermúdez et al. (2018), Egizi et al. (2019)

F: Neumann (1897, under the name Haemaphysalis leporis ), Banks (1908), Hooker et al. (1912), Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Cooley (1946), Sonenshine (1979), Furman and Loomis (1984), Vogelsang and Santos Dias (1953b), Lindquist et al. (2016), Nava et al. (2017), Bermúdez et al. (2018), Egizi et al. (2019)

N: Hooker et al. (1912), Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Cooley (1946), Sonenshine (1979), Furman and Loomis (1984), Lindquist et al. (2016), Nava et al. (2017), Egizi et al. (2019)

L: Hooker et al. (1912), Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Cooley (1946), Clifford et al. (1961), Sonenshine (1979), Furman and Loomis (1984), Coley (2015), Lindquist et al. (2016), Egizi et al. (2019)

Note: Neumann (1897) states, erroneously, that Haemaphysalis leporispalustris (under the name Haemaphysalis leporis ) is a tick also found outside the Nearctic and Neotropical Regions and treats Haemaphysalis chordeilis (as Ixodes chordeilis ) as its synonym, but his descriptions are based on specimens collected on the typical host of Haemaphysalis leporispalustris in the USA, and are treated as bona fide here. Guglielmone et al. (2014) cite other records of Haemaphysalis leporispalustris from outside the American continent, treating them as misidentifications; the Nigerian records in Isaac et al. (2019) are similarly treated here. Gonixodes rostralis , a synonym of Haemaphysalis leporispalustris , was described by Dugès (1888), who depicted an alleged male tick, but the specimen was in fact a female, as explained in Neumann (1897) . Miller et al. (2016) present molecular data suggesting the presence of a species close to Haemaphysalis leporispalustris in Panama.