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Issue: Vol. 5486 No. 3: 26 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.3.6
Page range: 435-450
Abstract views: 90
PDF downloaded: 5

Description of a new species of Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae), a parasite of hares and rabbits (Lagomorpha: Leporidae) in Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado (USA), that was misidentified as H. leporispalustris (Packard, 1869) for more than a century

United States National Tick Collection; the James H. Oliver; Jr. Institute for Coastal Plain Science; Georgia Southern University; Statesboro; Georgia 30460-7982; USA; Department of Biology; Georgia Southern University; Statesboro; Georgia 30460; USA
Acari Haemaphysalis new species ticks USA

Abstract

Haemaphysalis (Gonixodes) mariae n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae) is described based on males and females that were collected from leporids in the United States (Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas). Adults of this new species are similar to those of H. leporispalustris (Packard, 1869), but can be distinguished from them by the punctation pattern of the conscutum and scutum, length of the lateral grooves, length of the lateral salience of palpal segment II, shape of palpal segment III, shape and length of spur on palpal segment III, and on coxa I, as well as by measurements and their ratios.

 

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