Haemaphysalis warburtoni Nuttall, 1912

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

173. Haemaphysalis warburtoni Nuttall, 1912 .

Oriental: 1) China (south), 2) Nepal (south and central); Palearctic: 1) China (north), 2) Nepal (north and central) (Hoogstraal 1971 c, Kolonin 2009, Chen et al. 2010, Zhao et al. 2021).

The range of Haemaphysalis warburtoni is unclear. Hoogstraal (1966b), Robbins (2005) and Guglielmone & Robbins (2018) listed it as present in China, India and Nepal. However, Hoogstraal (1971c) stated that Indian specimens do not belong to Haemaphysalis warburtoni , and India is not included within this species’ range in Hoogstraal & Kim (1985). Geevarghese & Mishra (2011) have continued to regard this tick as found in India, but their opinion is based on references published before the study of Hoogstraal (1971c); therefore, we exclude India from the range of Haemaphysalis warburtoni . A Taiwanese record of one specimen of alleged Haemaphysalis warburtoni corresponds in fact to Haemaphysalis formosensis , as explained in Robbins (2005).

The morphology of Haemaphysalis warburtoni is variable, as discussed in Hoogstraal (1971c), and more than one species may exist under this name.

See also Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae for its confusion with Haemaphysalis warburtoni .