Species Haemaphysalis longicornis - Asian Longhorned Tick

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Subclass Acari (Mites and Ticks)

Superorder Parasitiformes

Order Ixodida (Ticks)

Family Ixodidae (Hard Ticks)

Genus Haemaphysalis

Species longicornis (Asian Longhorned Tick)

Other Common Names

Cattle tick (New Zealand); Bush tick (Australia); east Asian tick

Explanation of Names

Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann, 1901

Size

An unfed female is typically 2.0–2.6 mm long and 1.5–1.8 mm wide, and grows to 9.8 mm long and 8.2 mm wide with engorgement - Wiki

Range

e US: AR, CT, KY, MD, NJ, NY, NC, PA, VA, TN and WV as of June 2019.

Native to China, Korea, Japan; introduced into the South Pacific, Austrailia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii and the Continental US.

Food

blood of mammals and birds; a livestock pest of cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, and chickens.

Life Cycle

reproduces asexually, laying thousands of eggs at a time and producing waves of offspring that extract so much blood that grown cattle grow weak and calves die.

an important vector in Asia of human and animal disease agents, which can result in human hemorrhagic fever and substantive reduction in dairy production - CDC

Remarks

believed to migrate by parasitizing birds, which carry it to new areas - Wiki

Print References

A pictorial key to differentiate the recently detected exotic Haemaphysalislongicornis Neumann, 1901 (Acari, Ixodidae) from native congeners in North America - ZooKeys

Discovery of Haemaphysalis longicornis (Ixodida: Ixodidae) Parasitizing a Sheep in New Jersey - Journal of Medical Entomology

Internet References

Wikipedia - Wiki

Global Health: the tick that binds us all - Rutgers

INTRUDER ALERT: LONGHORNED TICK - New Jersey

Multistate Infestation with the Exotic Disease–Vector Tick Haemaphysalis longicornis - CDC, November 2018

Contributed by Blaine Mathison on 7 September, 2018 - 10:01am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 6 July, 2019 - 8:07am

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