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Female
Salience is medium as the convex basal margin of palpal segment II and compact
palpi; basis capitulum is rectangular, showing cornua, the only case in females of
subgenus Aboimisalis; dental formula is 4/4; posterodorsal spur is absent; postero-
ventral spur is short, wide, blunt, reaching to intersegmental suture of palpal seg-
ment II and III; infrainternal setae are closely spaced, short, feathery, and number
11; coxal spurs are moderate and increase in size from coxa I to IV; porose areas
are circular...................[H. cornupunctata]
2.3.1 Haemaphysalis cornupunctata
This species was first collected from Kashmir by Varma in 1959, and was
described jointly with Hoogstraal in 1962. Later on in 1965, Hoogstraal and
McCarthy thought it as a primitive species and placed it in the subgenus
Aboimisalis. The immature stages were described by Dhanda and Kulkarni in 1969
from the specimens collected in Himachal Pradesh, India (
Figure 2.10
).
Figure 2.10
Distribution of
H. cornupunctata in India. (
)
Place of first record.
Map not to scale.
