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Figure 2.38
Haemaphysalis doenitzi. (A) Male, dorsal and ventral side; (B) female, dorsal
and ventral side; (C) nymph, dorsal and ventral side.
Source: Kohls (1949), Journal of Parasitology (vol 35(3)), Allen press Publishing Services;
NIV unpublished drawings.
1.20mm in length and width is from
0.90mm to 1.20mm. Cervical grooves are sub-parallel and deeper anteriorly.
Punctations are moderately large and evenly distributed. Marginal grooves are dis-
tinct, beginning at about the level of coxa II and continuing across two festoons on
each side. Festoons are about as wide as long, intervals between them dark. Genital
aperture is at opposite the interval between coxa II and III.
Scutum: Scutum is nearly circular; 0.90
Nymph (
Figures 2.38 and 2.39
)
Capitulum: Salience is broad and flared. Ventrobasal external margin of palpal seg-
ment II is without retroverted spur. Basal margin of palpal segment II is rounded
both dorsally and ventrally; palpal segment III is with ventral distinct spur.
