Haemaphysalis wellingtoni Nuttall & Warburton, 1908

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 : 102

174. Haemaphysalis wellingtoni Nuttall & Warburton, 1908 .

Australasian: 1) Indonesia (east of Wallace’s Line); Oriental: 1) China (south), 2) India, 3) Indonesia (west of Wallace´s Line), 4) Malaysia, 5) Myanmar, 6) Nepal (south and central), 7) Sri Lanka, 8) Taiwan, 9) Thailand, 10) Vietnam ( Anastos 1950, Hoogstraal et al. 1972 a, Tanskul & Inlao 1989, Kolonin 1995b, Durden et al. 2008, Chen et al. 2010, Geevarghese & Mishra 2011, Kuo et al. 2017, Petney et al. 2019, Zhao et al. 2021).

Hoogstraal et al. (1972a) stated that records of Haemaphysalis wellingtoni from New Guinea are incorrect, but later Hoogstraal (1982) listed this tick as having been introduced into New Guinea, where all parasitic stages have been found. Owen (2011) did not list Haemaphysalis wellingtoni as present in Papua New Guinea, and Hoogstraal (1982) was probably referring to the portion of New Guinea belonging to Indonesia, which is provisionally included within the range of this tick.

Haemaphysalis wellingtoni is chiefly a parasite of bird species that have also been reported in the Palearctic Region ( Yamaguti et al. 1971, Tsapko 2020) and on remote islands ( Joyce 1965), but no permanent populations of this tick have been found in these regions.