Biology Reference
In-Depth Information
Host
57,93,114,117,121
Immature stages: Jungle cat, mouse deer, Asiatic jackal, black-naped hare, goat,
sheep, leopard, squirrel, birds (gray partridge, painted spur fowl, Indian plaintive
cuckoo, Indian pitta, bush lark, brown shrike, gray drongo, brahminy myna, com-
mon myna, common wood shrike, red vented bulbul, white headed babbler, tailor
bird, Blyth's red warbler, magpie robin, Indian robin, coucal), and by flag dragging
through forest undergrowth.
Adults: Goat, sheep, buffalo, dog, squirrel, Asiatic jackal, bonnet monkey, hare,
jungle cat, wild boar, black-naped hare, cattle, red jungle fowl, domestic chicken,
and by flag dragging through forest vegetation.
Distribution
57,93,113,114,121
India (Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar,
Assam, Delhi, Goa, Punjab, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa,
Tamil Nadu), Sri Lanka.
Disease Relationship
21,22,88
A number of KFD virus isolations have been made from this species. In addition,
Ganjam related to Nairobi sheep disease virus, Bhanja, and Barur have been iso-
lated in India from this species.
2.7.13 Haemaphysalis sambar
Hoogstraal first described this species in 1971. He described it from a single speci-
men collected on Sambar deer from the mountains of South Western India. This
single male of H. sambar was collected in 1911 by C.R. Howlett at about 3,000 ft
altitude in Travancore district of Kerala, India (
Figure 2.91
).
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Male (
Figure 2.92
)
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Overall body length is approximately 2 mm, breadth 1 mm.
Capitulum: Basis capitulum is dorsally approximately 1.6 times as broad as
long; cornua are broad anteriorly, elongately triangular, almost one-half as long as
the base of basis capitulum. Palpi are broadly campanulate; combined breadth is
approximately 1.5 times the breadth of basis capitulum. Infrainternal setae number
five. Hypostome is longer than palpi; dental formula is 5/5, with eight to ten denti-
cles in a file.
Scutum: Scutum is 1.5 times as long as broad. Cervical pits are short and rela-
tively broad. Cervical grooves are obsolete. Lateral grooves are very short and nar-
row (all but obsolete). Punctations are small and medium size,
inconspicuous,
shallow, and relatively few. Festoons number 11, first pair is closed.
