Haemaphysalis cuspidata 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 : 159

37. Haemaphysalis cuspidata Warburton, 1910 .

An Oriental species whose adults and immature stages have been found on Mammalia (several orders) and Cuculiformes : Cuculidae ; adults alone have been collected from Carnivora : Herpestidae , and Lagomorpha : Leporidae ; immature stages alone have been recovered from Primates : Cercopithecidae , Rodentia : Hystricidae and Muridae , Soricomorpha : Soricidae , Bucerotiformes : Bucerotidae , Galliformes : Phasianidae , and Passeriformes : Sylviidae . Haemaphysalis cuspidata is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Warburton (1910)

F: Warburton (1910)

N: Warburton (1910)

L: Nuttall and Warburton (1915); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Toumanoff (1944), Trapido et al. (1964a), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Toumanoff (1944), Trapido et al. (1964a), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

N: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Trapido et al. (1964a), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

L: Trapido et al. (1964a), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

Note: Trapido et al. (1964a) doubt that the larva described in Nuttall and Warburton (1915) represents bona fide Haemaphysalis cuspidata .