30. Haemaphysalis cinnabarina Koch, 1844a .

Neotropical: 1) Brazil (Hoogstraal 1973b, Barros-Battesti et al. 2008).

This tick is known from two specimens collected in Brazil about 175 years ago and described by Koch (1844a); one specimen was named Haemaphysalis sanguinolenta, a synonym of Haemaphysalis cinnabarina, as discussed in Hoogstraal (1973b). The name Haemaphysalis cinnabarina has been considered invalid by most tick workers, although some records of Haemaphysalis chordeilis have been published as Haemaphysalis cinnabarina . Hoogstraal (1973b) reinstated this tick as a Neotropical species, an opinion supported by Barros-Battesti et al. (2008), but Keirans & Restifo (1993) and Kolonin (2009) continued to treat Haemaphysalis cinnabarina as a synonym of Haemaphysalis punctata . The position of Hoogstraal (1973b) is provisionally supported in Guglielmone et al. (2021) and here.

Reyne (1932) listed Haemaphysalis cinnabarina as present in Suriname, but this diagnosis is treated as a misidentification in Guglielmone et al. (2021) and here.