Haemaphysalis hystricis Supino, 1897

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 : 87

68. Haemaphysalis hystricis Supino, 1897 .

Australasian: 1) East Timor, 2) Indonesia (east of Wallace’s Line); Oriental: 1) China (south), 2) India, 3) Indonesia (west of Wallace’s Line), 4) Japan (the Ryukyu Islands), 5) Laos, 6) Malaysia, 7) Myanmar, 8) Sri Lanka, 9) Taiwan, 10) Thailand 11) Vietnam; Palearctic: 1) China (north), 2) Japan (except the Ryukyu Islands) ( Hoogstraal et al. 1965c, Keirans 1985 b, Santos Dias 1988, Tanskul & Inlao 1989, Kolonin 1995b, Robbins 2005, Durden et al. 2008, Chen et al. 2010, Geevarghese & Mishra 2011, Yamauchi et al. 2013, Liyanaarachchi et al. 2015 a, Vongphayloth et al. 2016, Kuo et al. 2017, Petney et al. 2019, Azama et al. 2021, Zhao et al. 2021).

Hoogstraal et al. (1965c) discussed the problems involved in morphologically identifying Haemaphysalis hystricis , including several descriptions of different species under this name ( Guglielmone et al. 2020). Consequently, records published before 1965 were not included in our analysis.

Camicas et al. (1998) treated Haemaphysalis hystricis as an Oriental and Palearctic species, but this tick has also been found in the Australasian Zoogeographic Region. The presence of Haemaphysalis hystricis in northern China is based on Keirans (1985b), who recorded two female specimens collected in Shandong Province.