Haemaphysalis elongata Neumann, 1897

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 : 161-162

45. Haemaphysalis elongata Neumann, 1897 .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Afrosori-cida: Tenricidae. All parasitic stages have been collected from Tenricidae; adults have occasionally been recovered from Rodentia : Muridae ; while nymphs have been taken from Carnivora : Eupleridae , and Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae . Haemaphysalis elongata is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1897)

F: Neumann (1897)

N: Hoogstraal et al. (1974)

L: Hoogstraal et al. (1974)

Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal (1953a), Hoogstraal et al. (1974), Uilenberg et al. (1979); see note below

F: Hoogstraal (1953a), Hoogstraal et al. (1974), Uilenberg et al. (1979); see note below

N: Uilenberg et al. (1979)

L: Uilenberg et al. (1979)

Note: Hoogstraal (1953a) explains that the female of Haemaphysalis elongata depicted in Nuttall and Warburton (1915) is, in fact, Haemaphysalis tiptoni , while the male described under that name in the same publication does not represent Haemaphysalis elongata .