Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides

Unique identifier: 65
Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides
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Morphological Keys

Stage/Sex Morphological Keys
Female
  • Punctuations few, sparsely scattered, strongly unequal, larger ones arranged almost in longitudinal rows and found in the posterior portion of the median field, finer ones hardly visible.
  • 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
  • Adanal shields sickle shape with external and posterior margins forming a regular curve
  • Punctuations comparatively less numerous, strongly unequal
  • Larger ones few in number and regularly arranged: finer ones numerous, very minute and hardly visible
  • Basis capituli twice as broad as long.
  • 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
  • Basis capitulai hexagonal with cox I have bifurcated spur.
  • 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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