Biology Reference
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Table 2.6
Life Cycle of Haemaphysalis kinneari Under Laboratory Conditions
Stage
Event
Days for Completion
Room Temperature
(2430
C)
Controlled Temperature
(20
6
1
C)
20
25
20
25
Adult
Pre-feeding
Feeding
6
19
7
11
Pre-oviposition
4
9
8
11
Oviposition
22
45
30
40
Egg
Incubation
35
42
44
62
Larva
Pre-feeding
3
4
3
4
Feeding
3
6
3
5
Molting
13
22
22
29
Nymph
Pre-feeding
5
7
5
7
Feeding
3
6
4
7
Molting
12
15
25
28
adults take 5
12 days on rabbits. These hosts are considered to be suitable for
maintenance of temporary laboratory colonies. Duration of various events increased
with decrease in ambient temperature. Under laboratory conditions, engorgement
and dropping of these stages seems to coincide with the activity of hosts. The dura-
tion of parasitic phase of larvae, nymph, and adults differs with the host offered
under laboratory conditions (
Table 2.6
).
Related Species
140
H. kinneari is closely related to papuana. H. papuana is distinctly smaller, 2.8 by
1.8 mm, than H. kinneari, 3.5 by 2.4 mm. Ridge-like development on dorsobasal
margin of palpal segment III in papuana distinguishes it from kinneari, which has
a small triangular spur at the same locus. The sexually dimorphic palpal basolateral
salience of the female of H. papuana is absent in H. kinneari.
H. kinneari belongs to a group in which the palpi of immature stages are broadly
salient while in adults they are not salient. This character differs it from closely
related H. bispinosa group in which immature palpi are not salient; also from
H. doenitzi group in which all palpi are broadly salient basolaterally.
Host
114,117,139
Immature stages: Wild boar, mouse deer, crested porcupine, Indian gray mon-
goose, langur monkey, cattle, buffalo, different rat species, squirrel, mice, shrew,
Asiatic long-tailed mouse, leopard, wild hare, wild dog, bonnet monkey.
Adults: Asiatic jackal, wild boar, tiger, monkey, rodents, buffalo, leopard, wild
hare, mongoose (gray), wild dog.
Distribution
113,114,117
India (Karnataka, West Bengal).
