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Figure 2.64 Distribution of
H. cuspidata in India. (
) Place
of first record.
Map not to scale.
Adults: Cow, calf, buffalo, coucal, barking deer, leopard, rats, wolf, man, cattle,
goat, rodents, sambar deer, wild ox, and from flag dragging through vegetation.
Distribution 67,80,120
India (Assam, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu
and Kashmir, Meghalaya), Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam.
2.7.4 Haemaphysalis cuspidata
Haemaphysalis cuspidata was first described by Warburton in 1910 from the speci-
mens collected from mouse deer and palm civet in Sri Lanka ( Figure 2.64 ).
Male ( Figures 2.65 and 2.66 ) 104
Mean length is about 1.2
1.3 mm.
Capitulum: Cornua are very long and sharply pointed, and triangular. Palpal
segment II is with moderate salience and without spur on both dorsal and ventral
side. Infrainternal setae number four. Palpal segment III shows a prominent, elon-
gately triangular, sharply pointed spur on dorsal side extending beyond palpal seg-
ment II, as well as a retroverted, sharply pointed spur, extending beyond palpal
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