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posteroventral margin of palpal segment II, which is absent in leachi females. The
only readily apparent difference among males is that the lateral grooves enclose a
single festoon in canestrinii but two or three festoons in leachi.
Ecology 74
This species occurs from the Northwestern region of Asia, Pakistan through India
and Nepal to South Eastern Asian region, to Thailand, Vietnam, and Burma. It
occurs in altitude ranges of 300 ft in Burma to 2,600 ft altitude in Madhya Pradesh
region of India and in Vietnam.
Hosts 74
Immature stages: Human, tree shrew, rats, immature jungle cat/civet, five striped
palm squirrel, mouse.
Adults: Red jungle fowl, Indian civets, tiger, leopard, Asiatic jackal, Bengal
foxes, fishing cat, palm civet, hog badger, ferret badger, small Indian mongoose,
jungle cat, hare, small Taiwan civet, large Indian civet, immature jungle cat.
Distribution 74
India (Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand (formerly a part of Uttar Pradesh),
Orissa, Bihar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab), Thailand, Vietnam,
Taiwan, Burma, Pakistan, Nepal.
2.10.2 Haemaphysalis indica
This species was first described from India by Warburton in 1910 as a variety of
Haemaphysalis
leachi but
later on was given a
separate
species
status
( Figure 2.119 ). 71
Male ( Figures 2.120 and 2.121 ) 71
Overall body length is 1.58
1.05 mm.
Capitulum: Basis capituli are dorsally approximately twice as broad (anteriorly)
as long; cornua are short, broadly triangular, more or less pointed apically, one-
fourth or one-third as long as the base of the basis capituli. Palpi are broadly salient
(leachi-type); combined breadth is approximately 1.6 times breadth of basis capitu-
li. Hypostome is as long as palpi; dental formula is 4/4 (maybe irregularly 3/3 pos-
teriorly), with denticles in irregular files of six to eight.
Scutum: Scutum is typically 1.5
1.88 mm, breadth 0.75
1.7 times as long as broad (variable); margins
are broadly rounded. Lateral grooves are deep, distinct, extend to anterior one-
fourth of scutal length, enclose first festoon. Cervical grooves are short, shallow.
Punctations are very few, range from small and discrete to large and shallow, irreg-
ularly scattered. Festoons number 11.
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