Haemaphysalis shimoga

Unique identifier: 35
Haemaphysalis shimoga
© ICMR-Vector Control Research Center

Morphological Keys

Stage/Sex Morphological Keys
Female
  • Salience present
  • Palpal segment 3 with ventral retroverted spur prominent, length about twice its basal breadth
  • Dorsobasal margin of palpal segment 3 with median retroverted spur
  • Palpal segment 2 with the juncture of ventrobasal and external margin a blunt angle.
  • 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
  • Salience broad and with a ventrobasal-external margin of palpal segment 2 developed into a prominent spur or projection
  • Coxa IV with double long 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.
Nymph
  • Salience Present
  • Coxa I with reduced, broad, rounded spur
  • Coxae II to IV with broad ridge-like projections only Ventral spur of palpal segment 3 only slightly longer than its basal breadth, tapering, pointed
  • Spur of coxa I more prominent, longer than ventral spur of palpal segment 3.
  • 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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