Haemaphysalis spinulosa, Neumann, 1906

Robbins, Richard G., Nava, Santiago, Ronai, Isobel, Chong, Kaylin L. & Guglielmone, Alberto A., 2025, Type specimens of the world’s hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names, Zootaxa 5606 (1), pp. 1-287 : 206

spinulosa Neumann, 1906 , Haemaphysalis

Neumann, L.G. (1906) Notes sur les ixodidés. IV. Archives de Parasitologie, 10, 195–219.

Type depository: BMNH?: lectotype (female) and a paralectotype (female) were designated by Hoogstraal (1964b) Type locality: Entebbe , Uganda

Type host: cane rat?

Comments: Neumann (1906) stated that type specimens were deposited in the BMNH, naming Uganda as the type locality but providing no type host in his description of Haemaphysalis spinulosa . The type information above is from Hoogstraal (1964b), who cited the specimen label in the BMNH, and this museum was confirmed as the depository of “ types ” by Nuttall & Warburton (1915). However, Keirans & Hillyard (2001) stated that there are no indications that specimens of this tick were received by the BMNH, and Tomlinson et al. (2018) were also unable to find the types of Haemaphysalis spinulosa in the BMNH.

Tomlinson et al. (2018) cautioned that the morphological definition of Haemaphysalis spinulosa is uncertain, apart from the female specimen redescribed by Hoogstraal (1964b). Tomlinson et al. (2018) extensively reexamined ticks classified as Haemaphysalis spinulosa that are deposited in the USNTC, finding that none of them represented bona fide specimens of this taxon.