Description of two new species of Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae) from the H . ( Rhipistoma ) spinulosa subgr
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Description of two new species of Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae) from the H. (Rhipistoma) spinulosa subgroup, parasites of carnivores and other mammals in Africa Dmitry A. Apanaskevich . Jackson A. Tomlinson
Received: 26 April 2020 / Accepted: 17 October 2020 / Published online: 15 November 2020 Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Haemaphysalis (Rhipistoma) latitudinis n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae) and H. (R.) setosa n. sp. are described based on adults. Adults of H. (R.) latitudinis n. sp. were mostly collected from carnivores (Carnivora: Canidae, Felidae, Herpestidae, Mustelidae, Viverridae), few specimens were found on rodents (Rodentia: Muridae), bat (Chiroptera: Molossidae) and domestic cattle (Artiodactyla: Bovidae) in Benin, Central African Republic, Coˆte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya,
This article was registered in the Official Register of Zoological Nomenclature (ZooBank) as urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:32FC8E B0-7E76-40BB-B3AE-8D1F60BF7C96. 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 (&) J. A. Tomlinson United States National Tick Collection, The James H. Oliver, Jr. Institute for Coastal Plain Science, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460-8042, USA e-mail: [email protected] D. A. Apanaskevich J. A. Tomlinson Biology Department, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA D. A. Apanaskevich Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia 199034
Nigeria, South Sudan and Uganda. Adults of H. (R.) setosa n. sp. were mostly found on carnivores (Carnivora: Felidae, Herpestidae, Viverridae), few specimens were found on rodents (Rodentia: Muridae), hare (Lagomorpha: Leporidae), hyrax (Hyracoidea: Procaviidae) and human (Primates: Hominidae) in Kenya. Males and females of both species can be differentiated from each other and other H. spinulosa-like ticks by their size, pattern of punctations on conscutum/scutum, size of setae, shape of genital structures, size and shape of spiracular plates, dorsal cornua, posterodorsal and posteroventral spurs on palpal segment II and spur on coxae and dentition on hypostome.
Introduction In the genus Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae) there are over 170 described species, making it the second most diverse genus of ticks (Guglielmone et al., 2014). Studied species of Haemaphysalis are three-host ticks which primarily parasitise various mammals and birds. The subgenus Rhipistoma Koch, 1844 is composed of 39 valid species, the majority of which occur in the Afrotropical zoogeographic region and primarily parasitise carnivores, rodents, hyraxes and hedgehogs (Camicas et al., 1998; Guglielmone et al., 2014; Tomlinson et al., 2018; Tomlinson & Apanaskevich, 2019; Apanaskevich & Tomlinson, 2019)
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