Haemaphysalis japonica Warburton, 1908

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 : 170

72. Haemaphysalis japonica Warburton, 1908 .

A Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Artiodactyla : Cervidae ; Carnivora : Canidae and Mustelidae ; Galliformes : Phasianidae , and Passeriformes (several families). Adults and nymphs have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Carnivora : Felidae and Ursidae , and Lagomorpha : Leporidae ; adults alone have been recovered from Artiodactyla : Suidae , Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae , and Perissodactyla : Equidae ; immature stages alone have been recovered from Rodentia : Cricetidae , Muridae and Sciuridae , Charadriiformes : Scolopacidae , and Strigiformes : Strigidae . Haemaphysalis japonica is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Warburton (1908)

F: Ogura and Takada (1927), under the name Haemaphysalis jezoensis , a synonym of Haemaphysalis japonica

N: Pospelova-Shtrom (1940), under the name Haemaphysalis japonica douglasi , another synonym of Haemaphysalis japonica

L: Pospelova-Shtrom (1940), under the name Haemaphysalis japonica douglasi

Redescriptions

M: Keegan and Toshioka (1957), Itagaki et al. (1959), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Teng and Jiang (1991), Filippova (1997, under the name Haemaphysalis japonica douglasi ); see note below

F: Itagaki et al. (1959), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Teng and Jiang (1991), Yamauchi and Takada (2015), Filippova (1997, under the name Haemaphysalis japonica douglasi )

N: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Kitaoka (1985, under the name Haemaphysalis douglasi ), Teng and Jiang (1991), Filippova (1997, under the name Haemaphysalis japonica douglasi )

L: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Kitaoka (1985, under the name Haemaphysalis douglasi ), Teng and Jiang (1991), Filippova (1997, under the name Haemaphysalis japonica douglasi )

Note: there are other redescriptions of Haemaphysalis japonica under the name Haemaphysalis japonica douglasi , apart from Filippova (1997), that are not included in the above lists. See also Haemaphysalis megaspinosa for its molecular similarity with Haemaphysalis japonica .