Haemaphysalis houyi 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 : 166

62. Haemaphysalis houyi Nuttall and Warburton, 1915 .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Rodentia : Sciuridae . Adults and nymphs have been collected from Rodentia : Muridae , and Soricomorpha : Soricidae ; adults alone have been recovered from Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae , and Carnivora : Mustelidae and Viverridae . There are no records of Haemaphysalis houyi causing human parasitism.

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), under the name Haemaphysalis calcarata houyi and given its current status in Hoogstraal (1954)

F: Neumann (1910a) , under the name Haemaphysalis calcarata , as explained in Hoogstraal (1955b)

N: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), under the name Haemaphysalis calcarata houyi

L: Hoogstraal (1955b)

Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal (1955 b, 1956a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Hoogstraal (1955 b, 1956a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

N: Hoogstraal (1955b)

L: none

Note: see Haemaphysalis calcarata for its confusion with Haemaphysalis houyi .