Haemaphysalis doenitzi Warburton and Nuttall, 1909

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 : 161

43. Haemaphysalis doenitzi Warburton and Nuttall, 1909 .

An Australasian, Oriental and Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Cuculiformes : Cuculidae , and Galliformes : Phasianidae , but they have also been collected from Passeriformes : Sturnidae , Sylviidae and Turdidae , and Rodentia : Muridae . Adult ticks alone have been recovered from Bucerotiformes : Upupidae , Coraciiformes : Coraciidae , Gruiformes : Rallidae , and Passeriformes : Pycnonotidae ; adults and nymphs have been collected occasionally from Lagomorpha : Leporidae , and Testudines : Geoemydidae ; adults and larvae have been taken from Passeriformes : Alaudidae ; nymphs and larvae have been found on Passeriformes : Pittidae and Timaliidae ; while nymphs alone have been collected from Passeriformes : Hirundinidae and Muscicapidae , and Piciformes : Capitonidae . Haemaphysalis doenitzi is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Warburton and Nuttall (1909)

F: Warburton and Nuttall (1909)

N: Hoogstraal and Wassef (1973); see note below

L: Hoogstraal and Wassef (1973)

Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal and Wassef (1973), Tanskul and Inlao (1989), Teng and Jiang (1991), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

F: Hoogstraal and Wassef (1973), Tanskul and Inlao (1989), Teng and Jiang (1991), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

N: Teng and Jiang (1991), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

L: Teng and Jiang (1991)

Note: Hoogstraal and Wassef (1973) state that the nymph of Haemaphysalis centropi , a synonym of Haemaphysalis doenitzi in Trapido et al. (1964a) , is in fact a nymph of Haemaphysalis howlettti . Sames et al. (2008) suggest that more than one species may be included under the name Haemaphysalis doenitzi . Guglielmone et al. (2014) recognized the taxonomic problems attending Haemaphysalis doenitzi , stating that additional studies are needed to properly define this species and related taxa. See also Haemaphysalis pavlovskyi and Haemaphysalis phasiana for their proposed synonymy with Haemaphysalis doenitzi .