Haemaphysalis houyi Nuttall and Warburton, 1915

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 : 166

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scientific name	Haemaphysalis houyi Nuttall and Warburton, 1915
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62. Haemaphysalis houyi Nuttall and Warburton, 1915 View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Rodentia : Sciuridae . Adults and nymphs have been collected from Rodentia : Muridae , and Soricomorpha : Soricidae ; adults alone have been recovered from Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae , and Carnivora : Mustelidae and Viverridae . There are no records of Haemaphysalis houyi causing human parasitism.

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), under the name Haemaphysalis calcarata houyi and given its current status in Hoogstraal (1954)

F: Neumann (1910a) , under the name Haemaphysalis calcarata , as explained in Hoogstraal (1955b)

N: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), under the name Haemaphysalis calcarata houyi

L: Hoogstraal (1955b)

Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal (1955 b, 1956a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Hoogstraal (1955 b, 1956a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

N: Hoogstraal (1955b)

L: none

Note: see Haemaphysalis calcarata for its confusion with Haemaphysalis houyi .

References

Hoogstraal, H. (1954) A preliminary, annotated list of ticks (Ixodoidea) of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Journal of Parasitology, 40, 304 - 310. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3273742

Hoogstraal, H. (1955 b) Notes on African Haemaphysalis ticks. II. The ground-squirrel parasites, H. calcarata Neumann, 1902, and H. houyi Nuttall and Warburton, 1915 (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae). Journal of Parasitology, 41, 361 - 373. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3274237

Lotozky, B. V. (1956 a) Morphological peculiarities of the larvae and nymphs of Haemaphysalis caucasica Ol. (Ixodidae). Doklady Akademy Nauk Tadzhiksoy SSSR, 16, 93 - 98. [in Russian]

Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.

Neumann, L. G. (1910 a) Sur quelques especes d'Ixodidae nouvelles ou insuffisamment connues. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Serie 9, 12, 161 - 176.

Nuttall, G. H. F. & Warburton, C. (1915) Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part III. The genus Haemaphysalis. Cambridge University Press, London, pp. 349 - 550.