Summary
Haemaphysalis (Haemaphysalis) concinna tick is widely distributed species in the forests of temperate Eurasia. Its distribution in temperate zone is confined to the deciduous and mixed forests to the relatively humid places, lake coasts and river basins. It is known from France, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Roumania and Balkan Peninsula, southern republics of the USSR.
In Czechoslovakia it occurs in region approximately limited with annual isotherm 8° C and isohyets 600–700 mm. H. concinna inhabits there the light humid leafy forests and mixed hornbeam-oak forests with bush-undergrowth, forest clearings and margin of oak forests.
It seems that birds and small mammals occurring in its habitat as mole, shrews and voles, yellow necked mouse, rabbit and brown hare are very frequent hosts of immature stages of H. concinna. For adults very important hosts are Artiodactyla.
Adults are active from the middle April to August. Larvae are active from the end of May to October. Nymphs appear from middle April untill October.
Development is often completed within three years. Development under laboratory conditions at temperature 20–24° C and relative humidity 90–95 per cent is completed in 194–252 days, including larval, nymphal and adult prefeeding periods.
The feeding of larvae on the white mouse proceeds for 3–4 days, that of nymphs 4 days. The feeding of female lasts 8–10 days.
H. concinna is known as vector and reservoir of tick-borne encephalitis and tick spotted typhus.
As parasite of all stages of H. concinna tick Hunterellus hookeri was observed.
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Nosek, J. The ecology, bionomics and behaviour of Haemaphysalis (Haemaphysalis) concinna Tick. Z. Parasitenk. 36, 233–241 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00348561
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