Haemaphysalis cornigera shimoga, Robbins & Nava & Ronai & Chong & Guglielmone, 2025

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 : 57

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1
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scientific name	Haemaphysalis cornigera shimoga
status

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cornigera View in CoL shimoga Hoogstraal & Trapido, 1964 , Haemaphysalis

Trapido, H. & Hoogstraal, H. (1964) Haemaphysalis cornigera shimoga subsp. n. from southern India (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae ). Journal of Parasitology, 50, 303–310.

Type depositories: USNTC: holotype (male) and paratypes (a female and others unspecified developmental stages) ; BMNH?, VRC and ZSI: paratypes (males, females, nymphs and larvae)

Type locality: Kyasanur Forest near Barage , Shimoga District, State of Karnataka, India

Type host: the holotype specimen was collected from vegetation

Current status: a synonym of Haemaphysalis shimoga and its original name ( Camicas et al. 1998). The current status of Haemaphysalis cornigera shimoga , as Haemaphysalis shimoga , was established by Hoogstraal & El Kammah (1972).

Comments: Keirans & Hillyard (2001) stated that paratypes allegedly delivered to the BMNH were not received there .