Haemaphysalis paraleachi Camicas, Hoogstraal and El Kammah, 1983

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 : 184

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scientific name	Haemaphysalis paraleachi Camicas, Hoogstraal and El Kammah, 1983
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117. Haemaphysalis paraleachi Camicas, Hoogstraal and El Kammah, 1983 View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Carnivora : Canidae , Felidae and Viverridae . Adults and nymphs have been collected from Rodentia : Muridae ; adults alone have been recovered from Artiodactyla : Cervidae and Moschidae , Carnivora (several families), Rodentia : Hystricidae , and Galliformes : Phasianidae . Haemaphysalis paraleachi is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Camicas et al. (1983)

F: Camicas et al. (1983)

N: undescribed

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

Note: Camicas et al. (1983) state that Haemaphysalis paraleachi has been extensively confused with Haemaphysalis leachi .

Camicas, J. L., Hoogstraal, H. & El Kammah, K. M. (1983) Notes on African Haemaphysalis ticks. XIV. Description of adults of H. (Rhipistoma) paraleachi sp. n., a carnivore parasite of the H. (R.) leachi group (Ixodoidea: Ixodidae). Journal of Parasitology, 69, 400 - 404. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3281244

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

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Ixodida
Family	Ixodidae
Genus	Haemaphysalis

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