Haemaphysalis formosensis Neumann, 1913b

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 85

50. Haemaphysalis formosensis Neumann, 1913b .

Oriental: 1) China (south), 2) Japan (the Ryukyu Islands), 3) Philippines, 4) Taiwan, 5) Vietnam; Palearctic: 1) Japan (except the Ryukyu Islands) ( Phan Trong 1977, Hoogstraal & Kim 1985, Yamauchi & Funakoshi 2000, Robbins 2005, Kolonin 2009, Chen et al. 2010, Kuo et al. 2017, Yamauchi & Hoshina 2018, Yamauchi et al. 2013).

Haemaphysalis formosensis has mostly been recorded from migratory birds in South Korea ( Kim et al. 2014, Chong et al. 2018), but it is uncertain whether this tick is established there, and South Korea is not included within the range of Haemaphysalis formosensis . Dhanda & Rao (1964) allegedly found Haemaphysalis formosensis in India, but Geevarghese & Mishra (2011) stated that this tick is not present in that country, a view accepted here.