Biology Reference
In-Depth Information
The area receives southeasterly monsoon from the Bay of Bengal. The average
yearly rainfall ranges from 150 to 200 cm. The rainy season starts in the middle of
June and lasts till the end of September, with July and August as peak monsoon
months. There is considerable snowfall in winter, although the snow does not last
long. Most of the type specimens were collected from the forest vegetation, either
by handpicking or by flag dragging.
Species Relationship
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H. indoflava is close to H. flava, from which their larger size, smaller coxal and
trochantal spurs, and shorter ventral spur on palpal segment III can easily distin-
guish the sexes. The male can further be distinguished by the reduced posteroexter-
nal salience of palpal segment II, and the female in having rounded instead of
pointed cornua. H. indoflava can easily be separated from all other species in this
subgenus except H. flava by the fact that coxal spurs III and IV are larger than I.
As in the case of adults, the immature stages of H. indoflava show a marked
resemblance with those of H. flava of Japan. The nymphs as well as the larvae of
H. flava are slightly smaller than those of H. indoflava. Besides, the cornua and the
first coxal spurs of the former are slightly longer and more pointed than those of
H. indoflava.
Host
27,30,120
Immature stages: Flag dragging in north India.
Adults: Dog, sheep, jackal, bullock, wild boar, man, fox, and from flag dragging
in forest vegetation in north India.
Distribution
27,120
India (Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan).
Disease Relationship
Not known.
2.6.3 Haemaphysalis birmaniae
Supino first described the male and female of this species in 1897 from an Indian
muntjac and brush-tailed porcupine from Burma (
Figure 2.49
).
Male (
Figures 2.50 and 2.51
)
58,73,104,127
Overall body length is approximately 2.0 mm, width 1.2 mm.
Capitulum: Basis capitulum is approximately twice as wide as long. Palpi are
short and compact, lacking basolateral salience. Infrainternal setae are undifferenti-
ated, number two or three. Hypostome not reaching anterior margin of palpi; lateral
