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Haemaphysalis japonica Warburton 1908

Description

72. Haemaphysalis japonica Warburton, 1908.

A Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Artiodactyla: Cervidae; Carnivora: Canidae and Mustelidae; Galliformes: Phasianidae, and Passeriformes (several families). Adults and nymphs have been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Carnivora: Felidae and Ursidae, and Lagomorpha: Leporidae; adults alone have been recovered from Artiodactyla: Suidae, Erinaceomorpha: Erinaceidae, and Perissodactyla: Equidae; immature stages alone have been recovered from Rodentia: Cricetidae, Muridae and Sciuridae, Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae, and Strigiformes: Strigidae. Haemaphysalis japonica is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Warburton (1908)

F: Ogura and Takada (1927), under the name Haemaphysalis jezoensis, a synonym of Haemaphysalis japonica

N: Pospelova-Shtrom (1940), under the name Haemaphysalis japonica douglasi, another synonym of Haemaphysalis japonica

L: Pospelova-Shtrom (1940), under the name Haemaphysalis japonica douglasi

Redescriptions

M: Keegan and Toshioka (1957), Itagaki et al. (1959), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Teng and Jiang (1991), Filippova (1997, under the name Haemaphysalis japonica douglasi); see note below

F: Itagaki et al. (1959), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Teng and Jiang (1991), Yamauchi and Takada (2015), Filippova (1997, under the name Haemaphysalis japonica douglasi)

N: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Kitaoka (1985, under the name Haemaphysalis douglasi), Teng and Jiang (1991), Filippova (1997, under the name Haemaphysalis japonica douglasi)

L: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Kitaoka (1985, under the name Haemaphysalis douglasi), Teng and Jiang (1991), Filippova (1997, under the name Haemaphysalis japonica douglasi)

Note: there are other redescriptions of Haemaphysalis japonica under the name Haemaphysalis japonica douglasi, apart from Filippova (1997), that are not included in the above lists. See also Haemaphysalis megaspinosa for its molecular similarity with Haemaphysalis japonica.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-322 in Zootaxa 4871 (1) on page 170, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340

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References

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  • Ogura, K. & Takada, K. (1927) The ticks parasitic on cattle and horses in Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University, Sapporo, Japan, 18, 199 - 206.
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