Haemaphysalis toxopei Warburton, 1927

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 : 101

166. Haemaphysalis toxopei Warburton, 1927 .

Australasian: 1) Indonesia (east of Wallace’s Line); Oriental: 1) Indonesia (west of Wallace´s Line) ( Durden et al. 2008).

Haemaphysalis toxopei is a difficult tick to identify, and its validity may be in question. In the original description of Haemaphysalis toxopei by Warburton (1927), there is a confusing statement, where the female of this tick appears to be the same as that of Haemaphysalis kinneari . Thus, Anastos (1950) treated Haemaphysalis toxopei as a probable synonym of Haemaphysalis kinneari , but Trapido et al. (1964a) considered the statement in Warburton (1927) to be a lapsus. Hoogstraal (1964a) regarded Haemaphysalis toxopei as a subspecies of Haemaphysalis papuana , and Kolonin (2009) did not include Haemaphysalis toxopei in his list of ticks of the world, but it is valid in Camicas et al. (1998), Guglielmone et al. (2014, 2020) and others.