Nosomma monstrosum
Description
Nosomma monstrosum (Nuttall and Warburton, 1908)
Nosomma monstrosum is an unusual species which was originally classified, with reservations, as a Hyalomma, although it also shows certain characteristics of the genus Dermacentor (Nuttall and Warburton 1908; Warburton 1918). It does not possess the elongate mouthparts and beady eyes of Hyalomma but does possess enamelling and male ventral shields (Schulze 1920). Adult N. monstrosum are most commonly found on buffalo, although they have also been recorded from cattle, horses, pigs and dogs (Hoogstraal 1985b; Petney and Keirans 1996b). Immatures occur mainly on rodents. This species is found in Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam (Toumanoff 1944; Tanskul et al. 1983; Hoogstraal 1985b; Kolonin 1992, 2009), as well as India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh (Kolonin 2009). The life cycle has been determined for a Sri Lankan population of this species (Bandaranayaka et al. 2016).
Descriptions of adults are found in Arthur and Chaudhuri (1965) and immatures in Singh (1968).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Nosomma
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ixodida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Nuttall and Warburton
- Species
- monstrosum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nosomma monstrosum (and, 1908) sec. Petney, Boulanger, Saijuntha, Chitimia-Dobler, Pfeffer, Eamudomkarn, Andrews, Ahamad, Putthasorn, Muders, Petney & Robbins, 2019
References
- Nuttall, G. H. F. & Warburton, C. (1908) On a new genus of Ixodoidea together with a description of eleven new species of ticks. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 14, 392 - 416.
- Warburton, C. (1918) Notes on ticks. Being descriptions of two new species of Ornithodoros and of the hitherto unknown female of Hyalomma monstrosum. Parasitology, 10, 284 - 287. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 003118200000384 X
- Schulze, P. (1920) Bestimmungstabelle fur das Zeckengenus Hyalomma Koch. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 5, 189 - 196.
- Petney, T. N. & Keirans, J. E. (1996 b) Ticks of the genus Aponomma (Acari: Ixodidae) in South-east Asia. Tropical Biomedicine, 13, 167 - 172.
- Toumanoff, C. (1944) Les Tiques (Ixodoidea) de l'Indochine. Institut Pasteur de l'Indochine, Saigon, ii + 220 pp.
- Tanskul, P. L., Stark, H. E. & Inlao, I. (1983) A checklist of ticks of Thailand (Acari: Metastigmata: Ixodoidea). Journal of Medical Entomology, 20, 330 - 341. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 20.3.330
- Kolonin, G. V. (1992) Fauna of ticks (Ixodidae) of vertebrates of Vietnam. In: Sokolov, V. E. (Ed.), Zoological Investigations in Vietnam. Nauka, Moscow, pp. 242 - 276. [in Russian]
- Kolonin, G. V. (2009) Fauna of ixodid ticks of the world. Sofia, Moscow, unpaginated.
- Bandaranayaka, K. O., Apanaskevich, D. A. & Rajakaruna, R. S. (2016) Life cycle of Nosomma monstrosum (Acari: Ixodidae) under laboratory conditions. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 69, 97 - 106. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10493 - 015 - 0011 - 4
- Arthur, D. R. & Chaudhuri, R. P. (1965) A revision of Nosomma monstrosum (Nuttall and Warburton, 1908) Ixodoidea: Ixodidae. Parasitology, 55, 391 - 400. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000068864