19. Hyalomma nitidum Schulze, 1920. An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae. All parasitic stages have been collected from Lagomorpha: Leporidae; adults alone have been taken from Artiodactyla: Bovidae and Suidae, Carnivora: Canidae, and Perissodactyla: Equidae; while nymphs and larvae have been recovered from Rodentia: Muridae. There are no records of Hyalomma nitidum causing human parasitism. M: Schulze (1920) F: Schulze (1920) N: Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a) L: Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a) Redescriptions M: Schulze and Schlottke (1929a) and Kratz (1940), under the name Hyalomma impressum nitidum, Tomassone et al. (2005), Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a) F: Schulze and Schlottke (1929a) and Kratz (1940), under the name Hyalomma impressum nitidum, Tomassone et al. (2005), Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a) N: none L: none Note: Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a) treat Hyalomma nitidum as a valid species but leave open the possibility that it is conspecific with Hyalomma truncatum. Sands et al. (2017b) presented molecular evidence indicating that Hyalomma nitidum is most probably a synonym of the “northern lineage” of Hyalomma truncatum. See also Hyalomma albiparmatum for a discussion of the difficulties involved in morphologically separating Hyalomma albiparmatum, Hyalomma nitidum and Hyalomma truncatum.

Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, pp. 1-322 in Zootaxa 4871 (1) on pages 208-209, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340