Haemaphysalis cinnabarina Koch, 1844a

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 : 81-82

30. Haemaphysalis cinnabarina Koch, 1844a .

Neotropical: 1) Brazil (Hoogstraal 1973b, Barros-Battesti et al. 2008).

This tick is known from two specimens collected in Brazil about 175 years ago and described by Koch (1844a); one specimen was named Haemaphysalis sanguinolenta , a synonym of Haemaphysalis cinnabarina , as discussed in Hoogstraal (1973b). The name Haemaphysalis cinnabarina has been considered invalid by most tick workers, although some records of Haemaphysalis chordeilis have been published as Haemaphysalis cinnabarina . Hoogstraal (1973b) reinstated this tick as a Neotropical species, an opinion supported by Barros-Battesti et al. (2008), but Keirans & Restifo (1993) and Kolonin (2009) continued to treat Haemaphysalis cinnabarina as a synonym of Haemaphysalis punctata . The position of Hoogstraal (1973b) is provisionally supported in Guglielmone et al. (2021) and here.

Reyne (1932) listed Haemaphysalis cinnabarina as present in Suriname, but this diagnosis is treated as a misidentification in Guglielmone et al. (2021) and here.