Tomlinson Jackson A, Horak Ivan G, Apanaskevich Dmitry A
United States National Tick Collection, The James H. Oliver, Jr. Institute for Coastal Plain Science, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, 30460-8042, USA.
Biology Department, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, 30460, USA.
Syst Parasitol. 2018 Sep;95(7):673-691. doi: 10.1007/s11230-018-9809-x. Epub 2018 Jul 4.
Haemaphysalis (Rhipistoma) muhsamae Santos Dias, 1954 (Acari: Ixodidae) and H. (R.) subterra Hoogstraal, El Kammah & Camicas, 1992, are redescribed based on males and females. Adults of H. muhsamae were mostly collected from various mongooses (Carnivora: Herpestidae) but also from the striped polecat, Ictonyx striatus (Perry) (Carnivora: Mustelidae), serval, Leptailurus serval (Schreber) (Carnivora: Felidae), red veld rat, Aethomys chrysophilus (de Winton) and Selinda veld rat, Aethomys silindensis Roberts (Rodentia: Muridae) in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Adults of H. subterra were mostly found on various species of African mole rats, Tachyoryctes spp. (Rodentia: Spalacidae) but also on striped polecat, I. striatus and slender mongoose, Galerella sanguinea (Rüppell) (Carnivora: Herpestidae) in Ethiopia and Kenya. Males and females of both species can be differentiated from each other and other H. spinulosa-like ticks by their size, pattern of punctations on conscutum/scutum, shape of genital structures, shape and size of posterodorsal and posteroventral spurs on palpal segment II, hypostome dentition, and shape and size of spurs on coxae. Taxonomic issues of both species and those related to the identity of H. (R.) spinulosa Neumann, 1906 are discussed and a neotype of H. muhsamae has been designated.
基于雄性和雌性标本，对1954年命名的穆氏血蜱（Haemaphysalis (Rhipistoma) muhsamae Santos Dias）和1992年命名的地下血蜱（H. (R.) subterra Hoogstraal, El Kammah & Camicas）进行了重新描述。穆氏血蜱的成虫主要采自各种獴科动物（食肉目：獴科），但也采自条纹艾鼬（Ictonyx striatus (Perry)，食肉目：鼬科）、薮猫（Leptailurus serval (Schreber)，食肉目：猫科）、红野鼠（Aethomys chrysophilus (de Winton)）和塞林达野鼠（Aethomys silindensis Roberts，啮齿目：鼠科），采集地点包括博茨瓦纳、肯尼亚、莫桑比克、南非、坦桑尼亚和津巴布韦。地下血蜱的成虫主要发现于各种非洲鼹形鼠（Tachyoryctes spp.，啮齿目：竹鼠科），但也发现于条纹艾鼬和细纹獴（Galerella sanguinea (Rüppell)，食肉目：獴科），采集地点为埃塞俄比亚和肯尼亚。这两个物种的雄性和雌性可以通过其大小、盾板上的刻点图案、生殖结构的形状、须肢第二节后背面和后腹面距的形状和大小、口下板齿式以及基节距的形状和大小与彼此以及其他类似尖刺血蜱（H. spinulosa）的蜱类相区分。文中讨论了这两个物种的分类问题以及与1906年命名的尖刺血蜱（H. (R.) spinulosa Neumann）身份相关的问题，并指定了穆氏血蜱的新模式标本。
