Haemaphysalis indica Warburton, 1910

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 : 168

68. Haemaphysalis indica Warburton, 1910 .

An Afrotropical, Oriental and Palearctic species whose adults are usually found on Carnivora : Herpestidae . All parasitic stages have been collected from Carnivora : Canidae , Felidae and Herpestidae ; adults and nymphs have been recovered from Carnivora : Viverridae , Lagomorpha : Leporidae , and Galliformes : Phasianidae ; adults and larvae have been removed from Carnivora : Mustelidae ; adults alone have been taken from Artiodactyla : Cervidae , and Carnivora : Hyaenidae and Ursidae ; immature stages have been found on Artiodactyla : Suidae , Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae , Rodentia : Muridae , Soricomorpha : Soricidae , and Passeriformes : Laniidae , Muscicapidae and Timaliidae (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Liyanaarachchi et al. 2015a). There are no records of Haemaphysalis indica causing human parasitism.

M: Warburton (1910), under the name Haemaphysalis leachi indica and given its current status in Santos Dias (1958a)

F: Warburton (1910)

N: Trapido et al. (1964a), under the name Haemaphysalis leachi species 1, as explained in Hoogstraal (1970a)

L: Trapido et al. (1964a), under the name Haemaphysalis leachi species 1, as explained in Hoogstraal (1970a) Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal (1970a), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

F: Hoogstraal (1970a), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

N: Hoogstraal (1970a), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

L: Hoogstraal (1970a), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) list Haemaphysalis indica as an Oriental species, but Guglielmone et al. (2014) state that it has also been found in the Afrotropical and Palearctic Regions. Guglielmone et al. (2014) caution that iden-tifications of Haemaphysalis indica made prior to the study of Hoogstraal (1970a) are uncertain. Thus, Hoogstraal (1970a) states that all African references to Haemaphysalis indica (as Haemaphysalis leachi indica ) are incorrect, while some references from Asia are correct and others are not; none of these are included in the redescriptions above. Hoogstraal and Kim (1985) believe that more than one species is included under the name Haemaphysalis indica .