Haemaphysalis houyi Nuttall & Warburtoni, 1915

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63. Haemaphysalis houyi Nuttall & Warburtoni, 1915 .

Afrotropical: 1) Burkina Faso, 2) Cameroon, 3) Central African Republic, 4) Chad (south), 5) Ethiopia, 6) Ghana, 7) Guinea, 8) Ivory Coast, 9) Kenya, 10) Mali (south), 11) Senegal, 12) South Sudan, 13) Uganda ( Hoogstraal 1955, Morel & Magimel 1959, Walker 1974, Morel 1978, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Konstantinov et al. 1990, Ntiamoa-Baidu et al. 2004, Kolonin 2009, ElGhali & Hassan 2012, Uilenberg et al. 2013, Sylla et al. 2018).

The range of Haemaphysalis houyi may be broader than currently recognized because Morel (2003) included Benin, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Niger and Nigeria within the geographic distribution of this species. However, none of these countries are included in the range of this tick as defined by Kolonin (2009) and Sylla et al. (2018), and all are here provisionally excluded from the distribution of Haemaphysalis houyi . Theiler (1962) listed unconfirmed records of Haemaphysalis houyi from South Africa that were never reexamined, and Horak et al. (2018) did not list this tick as present in South Africa. Farooqi et al. (2017) and Ramzan et al. (2020b) listed Haemaphysalis houyi from Pakistan, but these are most probably diagnostic errors.