Haemaphysalis papuana Thorell, 1883

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 : 94

118. Haemaphysalis papuana Thorell, 1883 .

Australasian: 1) Indonesia (east of Wallace’s Line), 2) Papua New Guinea; Oriental: 1) Cambodia, 2) Indonesia (west of Wallace’s Line), 3) Malaysia, 4) Thailand, 5) Vietnam ( Trapido et al. 1964 a, Phan Trong 1977, Hoogstraal 1982, Keirans 1985b, Tanskul & Inlao 1989, Kolonin 2009, Owen 2011, Petney et al. 2019).

Haemaphysalis papuana was difficult to identify prior to its redescription by Trapido et al. (1964a), and records published before 1964 are not analyzed here.

Records of Haemaphysalis papuana from Australia, “Caucasia,” North Korea and India are erroneous ( Trapido et al. 1964 a, Yamaguti et al. 1971). The Philippines is included within the range of Haemaphysalis papuana by Durden et al. (2008), based on Trapido et al. (1964a), but all supposed Philippines records of this tick in the latter paper were subsequently identified as Haemaphysalis susphilippensis by Hoogstraal et al. (1968a).