Haemaphysalis bispinosa

Unique identifier: 14
Haemaphysalis bispinosa
© ICMR-Vector Control Research Center

Morphological Keys

Stage/Sex Morphological Keys
Female
  • Similar to Male
  • Size larger than Male
  • No salience
  • Punctations of scutum few and shallow
  • Palpal segment 3 with dorsal median elevated spur
  • Four or five slender, well-spaced infrainternal setae.
  • A. Elango. Hands-on Training Module on Medically Important Hard Ticks (Ixodidae). ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre (VCRC), Puducherry, 2022. https://vcrc.icmr.org.in/images/pdf/Manuals/Hands_on_Training_on_Medically_Important_Hard_Ticks_ICMR-VCRC.pdf.
Male
  • No salience
  • Scutum elongate, punctations few and shallow
  • Palpal segment 3 with dorsal, median, elevated spur
  • Infrainternal setae slender, well-spaced.
  • A. Elango. Hands-on Training Module on Medically Important Hard Ticks (Ixodidae). ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre (VCRC), Puducherry, 2022. https://vcrc.icmr.org.in/images/pdf/Manuals/Hands_on_Training_on_Medically_Important_Hard_Ticks_ICMR-VCRC.pdf.
Nymph
  • No salience
  • Cox III and IV have no distinct spur
  • Palps narrower, an external profile without re curvature
  • Palpal segment 3 with ventral spur short, blunt, extending about 1/4 distance to the basal margin of palpal segment.
  • A. Elango. Hands-on Training Module on Medically Important Hard Ticks (Ixodidae). ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre (VCRC), Puducherry, 2022. https://vcrc.icmr.org.in/images/pdf/Manuals/Hands_on_Training_on_Medically_Important_Hard_Ticks_ICMR-VCRC.pdf.
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