| Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Ixodida |
| Family: | Ixodidae |
| Genus: | Haemaphysalis |
| Species: | H. pospelovashtromae |
| Binomial name | |
| Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae Hoogstraal, 1966 | |
Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae, Pospelova-Shtrom’s USSR mountain haemaphysalid, is an ixodid tick native to Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and the Republic of Georgia that parasitizes cattle and goats. The species epithet honors parasitologist Dr. Maria V. Pospelova-Shtrom.
H. pospelovashtromae is a moderately large haemaphysalid, the adult males averaging 2.7 mm in length and 1.4 mm in width, and unengorged adult females 3.4 mm in length and 2.8 mm in width. When unengorged, they are of a yellowish color. The conscutum of the male is pear-shaped, and the scutum of the female is slightly longer than wide with the outline widest at the anterior third of the length and gradually converging to a moderately pointed posterior margin. The posterior margin of the idiosoma has 11 festoons.
References
- ^ Hoogstraal, Harry (1966). "Haemaphysalis (Allophysalis) pospelovashtromae sp. n. from USSR and Redescription of the Type Material of H. (A.) warburtoni Nuttall from China (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae)". The Journal of Parasitology. 52 (4): 787–800. doi:10.2307/3276458. ISSN 0022-3395.
- Richard G. Robbins and James E. Keirans: Tick Species of Central Asia, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.wrbu.org/tkID/tk_CENTCOMlist.html, last retrieved May 28, 2018.
- "ADW: Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae: CLASSIFICATION". animaldiversity.org. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
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| Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae | |