Haemaphysalis

Bush tick Haemaphysalis longicornis, copyright Commonsource.

Belongs within: Ixodidae.

Haemaphysalis is a genus of ticks feeding on birds and mammals primarily found in the Old World (Keirans 2009).

Characters (from Keirans 2009): Ornate; eyes absent; palpi short, with segment II as broad as long and usually much broader than long, obviously extended laterally, basis capituli dorsally rectangular.

<==Haemaphysalis Koch 1844 [Haemaphysalinae] KDB02
    |--H. (Haemaphysalis) FKK91
    |    |--H. (H.) concinna Koch 1844 FKK91, VR91
    |    |--H. (H.) flava FKK91
    |    |--H. (H.) japonica FKK91
    |    `--H. (H.) megaspinosa FKK91
    |--H. (Aboimisalis) punctata Canestrini & Fanzago 1877 FKK91, CF77
    |--H. (Alloceraea) kitaokai Hoogstraal 1969 KDB02
    |--H. (Gonixodes) leporispalustris F91
    |--H. (Kaiseriana) FKK91
    |    |--H. (K.) bancrofti Nuttall & Warburton 1915 FKK91, H98 [incl. H. leachi var. australis Neumann 1905 H98]
    |    |--H. (K.) cornigera FKK91
    |    |    |--H. c. cornigera FKK91
    |    |    `--H. c. ias FKK91
    |    |--H. (K.) hystricis FKK91
    |    |--H. (K.) longicornis Neumann 1901 FKK91, KDB02 (see below for synonymy)
    |    |--H. (K.) mageshimaensis FKK91
    |    `--H. (K.) yeni FKK91
    `--H. (Ornithophysalis) humerosa Warburton & Nuttall 1909 FKK91, T13

Haemaphysalis incertae sedis:
  H. bremneri Roberts 1963 H98
  H. doenitzi Warburton & Nuttall 1909 H98
  H. erinacei Pavesi 1884 [incl. H. numidiana Neumann 1897] A56
  H. inermis Birula 1895 VR91
  H. konigsbergeri Warburton & Nuttall 1909 H98
  H. lagostrophi Roberts 1963 H98
  H. leachi K09
  H. novaeguineae Hirst 1914 [=H. spinigera var. novaeguineae] H98
  H. petrogalis Roberts 1970 H98
  H. ratti Kohls 1948 H98
  H. rhinolophi Canestrini & Fanzago 1877 CF77
  H. sulcata Canestrini & Fanzago 1877 CF77

Haemaphysalis (Kaiseriana) longicornis Neumann 1901 FKK91, KDB02 [=H. concinna var. longicornis H98; incl. H. neumanni Dönitz 1905 H98]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[A56] Anastos, G. 1956. The ticks (Acarina: Ixodoidea) of the J. Klapperich Afghanistan Expedition, 1952 and 1953. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46 (1): 18–19.

[CF77] Canestrini, G., & F. Fanzago. 1877. Intorno agli Acari Italiani. Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Serie 5, 4: 69–208, pls 2–7.

[F91] Filippova, N. A. 1991. A hypothesis for the palaeogenesis of the distribution of the main vectors for Lyme disease. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 1 pp. 109–118. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[FKK91] Fujisaki, K., T. Kamio & S. Kawazu. 1991. Theileria sergenti cannot be regarded as the same species as T. buffeli and T. orientalis because of its transmissibility only by Kaiseriana ticks. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 1 pp. 233–237. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[H98] Halliday, R. B. 1998. Mites of Australia: A checklist and bibliography. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.

[K09] Keirans, J. E. 2009. Order Ixodida. In: Krantz, G. W., & D. E. Walter (eds) A Manual of Acarology 3rd ed. pp. 111–123. Texas Tech University Press.

[KDB02] Klompen, H., S. J. Dobson & S. C. Barker. 2002. A new subfamily, Bothriocrotoninae n. subfam., for the genus Bothriocroton Keirans, King & Sharrad, 1994 status amend. (Ixodida: Ixodidae), and the synonymy of Aponomma Neumann, 1899 with Amblyomma Koch, 1844. Systematic Parasitology 53: 101–107.

[T13] Taylor, C. K. 2013. Annotated bibliography for Barrow Island terrestrial invertebrates. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 83: 135–144.

[VR91] Výrosteková, V., J. Řeháček, D. Guryčová & E. Kocianová. 1991. Prevalence of Francisella tularensis in ticks of Slovakia. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 2 pp. 55–59. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.