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In-Depth Information
Scutum: Scutum is approximately 1.3 times as broad as long. Cervical grooves
and punctations are approximately as in nymph.
Hosts
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Immature stages: Chital deer, antelope, domestic cow, human (feeding), cattle,
goral, barking deer, nymphs collected by flag dragging in Arunachal Pradesh state
of India.
Adults: Chital deer, serow, domestic zhum, domestic cow, cattle, barking deer,
Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine, black buck, yak.
Distribution
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India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Uttar Pradesh (Dehradun), West Bengal, Tamil
Nadu), Nepal, Burma, Malaysia.
Related Species
H. birmaniae belongs to birmaniae group, which consists of H. atherurus, darjee-
ling, and capricornis. H. atherurus and H. capricornis are not found in India. H.
birmaniae differs from the closely related H. darjeeling by absence of projections
on posterodorsal and posteroventral margins of palpal segment II. Also, presence of
punctations in the central area of scutum and 4/4 dental formula distinguish H. bir-
maniae from H. darjeeling. H. birmaniae is smaller, paler, more yellowish than
H. darjeeling.
The female of H. darjeeling, notably larger (2.8 mm long) than that of H. birma-
niae (2.3 mm long), is readily recognized by its broadly U-shaped genital opercu-
lum (broadly rectangular in H. birmaniae), much larger coxal spurs, absence of
ventral spurs on trochanters, broad scutum, etc.
Ecology
H. birmaniae is known from a mountain area between 3,150 and 4,500 ft altitude
in Burma, 4,200
7,900 ft altitude in Nepal, and 500
3,200 ft altitude in northeast-
ern India.
2.6.4 Haemaphysalis darjeeling
This species belongs to birmaniae group, described by Hoogstraal and Dhanda for
first time in 1970 from the specimens collected on Himalayan artiodactyls and por-
cupines in the Himalayan forests of Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. The species
has been named after the place of its first collection (
Figure 2.52
).
Male (
Figures 2.53 and 2.54
)
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Overall body length is approximately 2.35 mm, breadth 1.5 mm.
