Haemaphysalis pedetes Hoogstraal, 1972

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 : 185-186

122. Haemaphysalis pedetes Hoogstraal, 1972 .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages, including the undescribed nymph and larva, have been found on Rodentia : Pedetidae ; adults alone have been collected from Carnivora : Canidae , Felidae , Mustelidae and Viverridae (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Horak et al. 2018). There are no records of Haemaphysalis pedetes causing human parasitism.

M: Hoogstraal (1972)

F: Hoogstraal (1972)

N: undescribed

L: undescribed

Redescriptions

M: Horak et al. (2018)

F: Horak et al. (2018)

Note: Haemaphysalis pedetes was originally identified as Haemaphysalis cooleyi but later classified as Haemaphysalis numidiana , a synonym of Haemaphysalis erinacei , by Warburton (1933). However, the ticks identified by Warburton (a male and a female) were found to be a new species, Haemaphysalis pedetes , as explained in Hoogstraal (1972). See also Haemaphysalis cooleyi and Haemaphysalis spinulosa for their confusion with Haemaphysalis pedetes .