Haemaphysalis anomala Warburton, 1913

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 : 149

5. Haemaphysalis anomala Warburton, 1913 .

An Oriental species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae ; larvae and nymphs have been recovered from Rodentia : Muridae , and Cuculiformes : Cuculidae . Adults alone have also been collected from Artiodactyla : Cervidae , and Carnivora : Canidae and Felidae . Haemaphysalis anomala is a rare parasite of humans.

M: Warburton (1913), under the name Haemaphysalis cornigera anomala and given its current status in Hoogstraal et al. (1967b)

F: Sharif (1928), under the name Haemaphysalis cornigera anomala

N: Hoogstraal et al. (1972a)

L: Hoogstraal et al. (1972a)

Redescriptions

M: Sharif (1928), under the name Haemaphysalis cornigera anomala, Hoogstraal et al. (1967b) , Tanskul and Inlao (1989), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

F: Hoogstraal et al. (1967b), Tanskul and Inlao (1989), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

N: Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

L: Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

Note: the description of the female of Haemaphysalis novaeguineae Krijgsman and Ponto, 1932 , a preoccupied name that is a synonym of Haemaphysalis bancrofti, in Toumanoff (1944) , corresponds, in fact, to Haemaphysalis anomala , as explained in Hoogstraal et al. (1967b). There are redescriptions of Haemaphysalis anomala under the name Haemaphysalis cornigera anomala , but we include only the description and redescription of Haemaphysalis cornigera anomala by Sharif (1928).