Haemaphysalis bancrofti 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 : 151

11. Haemaphysalis bancrofti Nuttall and Warburton, 1915 .

An Australasian species with one record in the Oriental Zoogeographic Region, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Diprotodontia : Macropodidae , but they have also been recovered from Diprotodontia : Phascolarctidae . Adults and nymphs have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Carnivora : Canidae , Peramelemorphia : Peramelidae , and Perissodactyla : Equidae . Adults and larvae have been taken from Dasyuromorphia : Dasyuridae ; adult ticks alone have been found on Artiodactyla : Suidae , and Carnivora : Felidae ; immature stages have been recovered from Diprotodontia : Phalangeridae and Potoroidae , and Cuculiformes : Cuculidae . Haemaphysalis bancrofti is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1915)

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1915)

N: Nuttall and Warburton (1915)

L: Nuttall and Warburton (1915)

Redescriptions

M: Roberts (1963 a, 1970), Laan et al. (2011a), Barker and Walker (2014)

F: Roberts (1963 a, 1970), Laan et al. (2011a), Barker and Walker (2014)

N: Roberts (1963 a, 1970), Laan et al. (2011a)

L: Roberts (1969), Laan et al. (2011a)

Note: Haemaphysalis novaeguineae Krijgsman and Ponto , a preoccupied name changed to Haemaphysalis meraukensis by Taylor (1944), was described from a male tick in Krijgsman and Ponto (1932) that was found to be a synonym of Haemaphysalis bancrofti , as explained in Roberts (1963a). See also Haemaphysalis anomala for its confusion with Haemaphysalis bancrofti .