Description of a new species of Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae) from the H . ( Rhipistoma ) asiatica subgroup
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Description of a new species of Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae) from the H. (Rhipistoma) asiatica subgroup, parasite of an endemic Malagasy carnivoran (Carnivora: Eupleridae) Dmitry A. Apanaskevich . Steven M. Goodman
Received: 13 December 2019 / Accepted: 10 September 2020 Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Haemaphysalis (Rhipistoma) galidiae n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae) is described herein based on males and a single female. Adults of H. galidiae n. sp. were collected from the ring-tailed vontsira, Galidia elegans Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (Carnivora: Eupleridae) on Madagascar. Males and the single female of this new species morphologically are most close to H. obtusa Do¨nitz, 1910, known from various Malagasy euplerid carnivorans, including G. elegans, as well as introduced carnivorans, but can be differentiated from This article was registered in the Official Register of Zoological Nomenclature (ZooBank) as urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5C09 F9B1-3BC0-4B68-8FBD-698D60EFC68C. This article was published as an Online First article on the online publication date shown on this page. The article should be cited by using the doi number. This is the Version of Record. This article is part of the Topical Collection Arthropoda. D. A. Apanaskevich (&) United States National Tick Collection, the James H. Oliver, Jr. Institute for Coastal Plain Science, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30460-8042, USA e-mail: [email protected]
it by the shape of the female genital aperture, shape of posterolateral margin of palpal segment II ventrally in both male and female and shape and size of spurs on palpal segment II, coxa I and trochanter I in both sexes.
Introduction Currently worldwide, there are nearly 170 described species of ticks in the genus Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae) (Guglielmone et al., 2014). Studied species of Haemaphysalis are all three-host ticks that primarily parasitise mammals and birds. The subgenus Rhipistoma Koch, 1844 is composed of 39 species parasitising mostly small- to mediumsized mammals such as carnivorans, rodents, hyraxes and hedgehogs. The majority of species of the subgenus occur in the Afrotropical zoogeographical region (Camicas et al., 1998; Guglielmone et al., 2014; S. M. Goodman Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA S. M. Goodman Association Vahatra, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar
D. A. Apanaskevich Biology Department, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30460, USA D. A. Apanaskevich Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia
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Tomlinson & Apanaskevich, 2019; Apanaskevich & Tomlinson, 2019). Within Haemaphysalis (Rhipistoma) asiatica group, the H. (Rhipistoma) asiatica subgroup is represented by five valid species, three of which, H. eupleres Hoogstraal, Kohls & Trapido, 1965; H. fossae Hoogstraal, 1953 and H. obtusa Do¨nitz, 1910 occur only on Madagascar (see Uilenberg et al
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