98. Haemaphysalis megalaimae Rajagopalan, 1963 .

Oriental: 1) India, 2) Japan (the Ryukyu Islands), 3) Thailand (Hoogstraal & Wassef 1973, Tanskul & Inlao 1989, Geevarghese & Mishra 2011, Kwak 2018b, Petney et al. 2019).

Sun et al. (2012) recorded Haemaphysalis megalaimae in China, but Zhang, G. et al. (2019), Zhang Y.K. et al. (2019) and Zhao et al. (2021) did not recognize its presence there, and China is provisionally excluded from the range of this tick until this discordance is settled.