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Table 2.4
Haemaphysalis shimoga Life Cycle Under Laboratory Conditions
Stage
Phase
Number of
Days
Number of
Observations
Host Animal
35
42
Egg
Incubation period
30 broods
5
7
Larvae Quiescent phase
2 broods
Life span
(maximum)
338
10 broods
Parasitic phase
3
7
14 broods
Chick and Rattus
blanfordi
Molting phase
10
19
12 groups, 100 each
Nymph Quiescent phase
1
2
2 groups, 100 each
Life span
(maximum)
219
6 groups, 100 each
Parasitic phase
3
6
15 groups, 100
200
each
Chick
Molting phase
25
29
8 groups, 100 each
Adult
Quiescent phase
20
25
2 groups, 25 each
Life span
(maximum)
335
2 groups, 25 each
Female Parasitic phase
8
15
32 specimens
Calf
Pre-oviposition
phase
5
8
32 specimens
Oviposition phase
18
31
32 specimens
Post-oviposition
phase
6
15
32 specimens
Distribution
26,113,114,142
India (Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal,
Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim).
Disease Relationship
So far no KFD virus isolations have been recorded from this species of ticks,
though this species has been collected repeatedly from KFD area.
2.7.3 Haemaphysalis anomala
This species was described by Warburton in 1913 from a single male from wolf in
Chota Nagpur plateau, Jharkhand state (previously part of Bihar state), India. This spe-
cies has an unspecialized/anomalous male palpal outline, which deviates from general
characters of cornigera group; hence, perhaps the name anomala (
Figure 2.61
).
