Haemaphysalis bispinosa Neumann, 1897

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 : 152

16. Haemaphysalis bispinosa Neumann, 1897 .

An Oriental species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , and Carnivora : Canidae , but all parasitic stages have also been collected from Mammalia (several orders), Galliformes : Phasianidae , and Passeriformes : Sturnidae . Adults alone have been recovered from Psittaciformes : Psittacidae ; immature stages have been found on Aves (several orders). Haemaphysalis bispinosa is a rare parasite of humans.

M: Warburton (1908)

F: Neumann (1897)

N: Nuttall and Warburton (1915)

L: Nuttall and Warburton (1915)

Redescriptions

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1915, see note below), Sharif (1928), Tanskul and Inlao (1989), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

F: Warburton (1908), Nuttall and Warburton (1915, see note below), Sharif (1928), Hoogstraal and Trapido (1966b), Tanskul and Inlao (1989), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

N: Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

L: Kadarsan (1971), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

Note: there are several redescriptions of Haemaphysalis bispinosa , mostly from specimens found in the Palearctic and Australasian Zoogeographic Regions, and some from the Oriental Region under the name Haemaphysalis bispi-nosa published prior to the reinstatement of Haemaphysalis longicornis and its differentiation from Haemaphysalis bispinosa by Hoogstraal et al. (1968b). Those redescriptions and a few published after 1968 are not included in the above lists. Neumann (1897) described Haemaphysalis bispinosa , but Neumann (1901) described under the same name a tick unlike that in the original description. Afterwards, Neumann (1902) treated Haemaphysalis bispinosa as a synonym of Haemaphysalis hystricis , but Neumann (1911a) considered Haemaphysalis bispinosa in Neumann (1901) a synonym of Haemaphysalis birmaniae . Hoogstraal and Trapido (1963c) also found Haemaphysalis bispinosa confused with Haemaphysalis intermedia . The descriptions and redescriptions of Haemaphysalis bispinosa from Indian specimens presented in Warburton (1908) and Nuttall and Warburton (1915) are treated as bona fide here. See also Haemaphysalis longicornis .