Haemaphysalis formosensis Neumann, 1913

Petney, Trevor N., Boulanger, Nathalie, Saijuntha, Weerachai, Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia, Pfeffer, Martin, Eamudomkarn, Chatanun, Andrews, Ross H., Ahamad, Mariana, Putthasorn, Noppadon, Muders, Senta V., Petney, David A. & Robbins, Richard G., 2019, Ticks (Argasidae, Ixodidae) and tick-borne diseases of continental Southeast Asia, Zootaxa 4558 (1), pp. 1-89 : 25

Haemaphysalis formosensis Neumann, 1913

This is predominantly an East Asian species that has also been found in Vietnam and the Philippines ( Hoogstraal and Kim 1985; Teng and Jiang 1991; Kolonin 1995). A wide variety of hosts are known from the mammal families Bovidae , Canidae , Cervidae , Herpestidae , Hystricidae , Leporidae , Suidae , Moschidae , Muridae , Tupaiidae , Ursidae and Vespertilionidae , as well as the bird families Corvidae , Phasianidae , Scolopacidae ( Ma et al. 2001; Guglielmone et al. 2014), and, in South Korea, migratory species in the family Turdidae ( Choi et al. 2014) .

The female is illustrated in Yamaguti et al. (1971).