Haemaphysalis shimoga Trapido and Hoogstraal 1964

143. Haemaphysalis shimoga Trapido and Hoogstraal, 1964.

An Oriental species whose adults and immature stages have been collected from Rodentia: Muridae; adults alone have been found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Cervidae and Suidae, and Rodentia: Sciuridae. Haemaphysalis shimoga is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Trapido and Hoogstraal (1964), under the name Haemaphysalis cornigera shimoga, and given its current status in Hoogstraal and El Kammah (1972)

F: Trapido and Hoogstraal (1964), under the name Haemaphysalis cornigera shimoga

N: Trapido and Hoogstraal (1964), under the name Haemaphysalis cornigera shimoga

L: Trapido and Hoogstraal (1964), under the name Haemaphysalis cornigera shimoga

Redescriptions

M: Trapido et al. (1964a), under the name Haemaphysalis cornigera shimoga, Tanskul and Inlao (1989), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

F: Trapido et al. (1964a), under the name Haemaphysalis cornigera shimoga, Tanskul and Inlao (1989), Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

N: Trapido et al. (1964a), under the name Haemaphysalis cornigera shimoga, Geevarghese and Mishra (2011)

L: Trapido et al. (1964a), under the name Haemaphysalis cornigera shimoga, Geevarghese and Mishra (2011) Note: Haemaphysalis shimoga is treated as a synonym of Haemaphysalis taiwana in Kolonin (2009), and there are difficulties in morphologically identifying Haemaphysalis shimoga, as stated in Tanskul and Inlao (1989). Li et al. (2018) present molecular evidence to hypothesize that more than one species may exist under the name Haemaphysalis shimoga, based on records of this species that appear to be the first for China, and are treated here as provisionally valid because of the difficulties involved in the identification of this species. See also Haemaphysalis anomaloceraea for its proposed synonymy with Haemaphysalis shimoga.