26. Hyalomma truncatum Koch, 1844a. An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla Bovidae; larvae and nymphs are commonly recovered from Lagomorpha: Leporidae, and Rodentia (several families). All parasitic stages have been collected from Mammalia (several orders); adults alone have been taken from Perissodactyla: Equidae; Accipitriformes: Accipitridae, Charadriiformes: Burhinidae, Struthioniformes: Struthionidae, and Testudines: Testudinidae; immature stages have been found on Aves (several orders), and Squamata: Chamaeleonidae (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Horak et al. 2018). Hyalomma truncatum is a sporadic parasite of humans. M: Koch (1844a) F: Koch (1884a), under the name Hyalomma rufipes as explained in Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a) N: Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a) L: Camicas (1970) Redescriptions M: Koch (1847), Feldman-Muhsam (1954), Hoogstraal (1956a), Hoogstraal et al. (1981), Walker, A.R. et al. (2003), Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a), Horak et al. (2018) F: Feldman-Muhsam (1954), Hoogstraal (1956a), Hoogstraal et al. (1981), Walker, A.R. et al. (2003), Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a), Horak et al. (2018) N: none L: Apanaskevich and Horak (2008a) Note: Sands et al. (2017a, b) presented molecular evidence to argue that at least two species are included under the name Hyalomma truncatum. See also Hyalomma albiparmatum and Hyalomma nitidum 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 page 211, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340