Haemaphysalis punctata Canestrini & Fanzago, 1878

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 : 97

133. Haemaphysalis punctata Canestrini & Fanzago, 1878 .

Palearctic: 1) Albania, 2) Algeria, 3) Armenia, 4) Austria, 5) Azerbaijan, 6) Belarus, 7) Belgium, 8) Bosnia and Herzegovina, 9) Bulgaria, 10) China (north), 11) Croatia, 12) Cyprus, 13) Czechia, 14) Denmark, 15) Egypt, 16) Estonia, 17) France, 18) Georgia, 19) Germany, 20) Great Britain, 21) Greece, 22) Hungary, 23) Iran, 24) Iraq, 25) Israel, 26) Italy, 27) Jordan, 28) Kazakhstan, 29) Kosovo, 30) Kyrgyzstan, 31) Lebanon, 32) Libya, 33) Moldova, 34) Montenegro, 35) Morocco, 36) Netherlands, 37) North Macedonia, 38) Poland, 39) Portugal, 40) Romania, 41) Russia, 42) Serbia, 43) Slovakia, 44) Slovenia, 45) Spain, 46) Sweden, 47) Switzerland, 48) Syria, 49) Tajikistan, 50) Tunisia, 51) Turkey, 52) Turkmenistan, 53) Ukraine, 54) Uzbekistan ( Feider 1965, Hoogstraal 1979, Keirans 1985 b, Martyn 1988, Jaenson et al. 1994, Papadopoulos et al. 1996, Filippova 1997, Morel 2003, Trilar 2004, Cringoli et al. 2005, Kolonin 2009, Burridge 2011, Omeragic 2011, Santos-Silva et al. 2011, Bursali et al. 2012, Krčmar 2012, Nowak-Chmura & Siuda 2012, Petney et al. 2012, Tstasaris et al. 2016, Dabaja et al. 2017, Estrada-Peña et al. 2017, Fedorova 2017, Nader et al. 2018, Hosseini-Chegeni et al. 2019, Knap et al. 2019, Hornok et al. 2020 a, Pavlovič et al. 2020, Perfilyeva et al. 2020, Tsapko 2020, Rubel et al. 2021, Zhao et al. 2021, Rubel & Brugger 2022).

Ramzan et al. (2020a), Parveen et al. (2021) and others listed Haemaphysalis punctata as occurring in Pakistan, but the presence of this tick there needs confirmation. Tufts & Diuk-Wasser (2021) reported an established population of this tick in the USA (Nearctic), but such records are also regarded here as in need of verification. Ekanem et al. (2012) allegedly found this tick in Nigeria, while Gargili et al. (2017) included Kenya and South Africa within the range of Haemaphysalis punctata , using references that do not support their statement.