Haemaphysalis leporispalustris ( Packard, 1869 )

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 : 91

92. Haemaphysalis leporispalustris ( Packard, 1869) .

Nearctic: 1) Canada, 2) Mexico (north), 3) USA; Neotropical: 1) Argentina, 2) Aruba, 3) Bolivia, 4) Brazil, 5) Colombia, 6) Costa Rica, 7) Curaç ã o, 8) Guatemala, 9) Mexico (south), 10) Panama. 11) Paraguay, 12) Peru, 13) Saint Martin, 14) Venezuela ( Fairchild et al. 1966, Kohls 1960b, 1969c, Jones et al. 1972, Alvarez et al. 2005, Guglielmone & Nava 2005, Nava et al. 2007, Mastropaolo et al. 2014, Lindquist et al. 2016, Rodríguez et al. 2020, Guglielmone et al. 2021, Ramírez et al. 2020).

Records of Haemaphysalis leporispalustris from South Korea ( Han et al. 2009, Sutor et al. 2014), Pakistan ( Khattak et al. 2012) and Nigeria ( Isaac et al. 2019) are regarded here as misidentifications.

Miller et al. (2016) and Thompson et al. (2020) found molecular evidence suggesting that more than one species may exist under the name Haemaphysalis leporispalustris in the Neotropical and Nearctic Zoogeographic Regions.