Hyalomma tunesiacum

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 : 225

tunesiacum franchinii Tonelli Rondelli, 1932 , Hyalomma

Tonelli Rondelli, M. (1932) Hyalomma nouvi delle colonie italiene. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturali, 71, 119–125.

Type depositories: IPCUM or MSNM: syntypes (males) ( Tonelli Rondelli 1932), but lost ( Hoogstraal & Kaiser 1958); USNTC?: lectotype? (male) and a paralectotype? (male) ( Hoogstraal & Kaiser 1958), syntypes? (males) (Apanaskevich et al. 2008a)

Type locality: Tauorga Oasis , Libya

Type host: camels and sheep

Current status: a synonym of Hyalomma franchinii and its original name ( Camicas et al. 1998, Apanaskevich et al. 2008a). The current status of Hyalomma tunesiacum franchinii , as Haemaphysalis franchinii , was established by Hoogstraal & Kaiser (1958).

Comments: Kratz (1940) stated that the “type” was in the “Zoological Museum of Milan,” probably meaning the MSNM. Hoogstraal & Kaiser (1958) believed that two male specimens deposited in the USNTC were part of the syntype series of Hyalomma tunesianicum franchinii and designated one male as a lectotype and the other male as a paralectotype, while Apanaskevich et al. (2008a) accepted that the two male ticks in the USNTC are probably part of the syntype series of Hyalomma tunesiacum franchinii but did not confirm the lectotype designation by Hoogstraal & Kaiser (1958).