The Genera Boophilus Rhipicephalus and Haemaphysalis (Ixodidae ...

CHORDEILIS (PACKARD), 1869
HAEMAPHYSALIS
10 AID 11
FIGURES
Ixodes chordeilis Packard, p. 67. Original description.
1869.
Haemaphysalis punctcta 1905. cinnabarinc Koch" Neumann, p. 237.
var.
Haemaphysalis chordeilis Packard" Banks, p. 34.
1908.
Haemaphysalis punctata cinnabarina Koch" Neumann, p. 108.
1911.
Haemaphysalis chordeilis (Packard)" Hooker et al., p. 97.
1912.
Haemaphysalis cinnabarina Koch" Nuttall and Warburton, p. 372 (in part).
1915.
FEMALE
Unengorged females are not available. Engorged specimens
Body..
Length, tips of palpi to posterior margin, from 0.60 to
Capitulum.
length of basis, from 0.24 to 0.27; width of basis from 0.48 to 0.54.
0.66;
ventral view, basis is quadrate, convex; ventral cornua absent.
In
areas large, depiessed, oval, with their longer axes parallel or
Iorose
converging posteriorly. Palpal article 2 with posterior edge less
faintly
than in leporis-palustris and with a row of flat, mildly barbed
reflexed
hairs on the inner edge, overlapping the hypostome
article/3 with a short,
spur and two or three fine, tapering hairs on the
ventral,-retrograde
edge.
inner
12 to 14 teeth in each file. Length, about 0.36.
with
Length, 1.26 to 1.32; width, 1.11 to 1.14. Oval, widest in
Seutum.
have posterolateral corners.
Moderate in length and size Trochantal dorsal spur large,
Legs.
on I; faint or absent on II, III, and IV. Ventral trochantal spurs
pointed
distinct short spurs placed near the middle of the posterior side; IV
with
longer spur placed witha the inner side.
near
as large as
9.5 by 8.25 and are broad oval, and equally thick at
become
ends.
both
of basis convex. Surface nearly flat, with a
few punctations.
Sides
faint or absent; posterior margin nearly straight or faintly sinu-
Cornua
ous,
salient.
.Clavate, with a small corona. Dentition 5/5, with principal
tIypostome;
denticles progressively smaller from laterals to the middle files and
front of the middle, with some tendency to
large, bluntly pointed. Cervical grooves conspicuous, deep, long.
Scapulae
carinae absent. Punctations numerous, evenly distributed.
Lateral
on all legs. Small terminal ventral spurs present on all tarsi. Length
absent
tarsus I, 0.60; metatarsus, 0.39. Length of tarsus IV, 0.48; meta-
of
0.39.
tarsus,
Coxa. Iwith internal spur moderately long.
Coxae,
Coxae II and III
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