Haemaphysalis hoodi Warburton & Nuttall, 1909

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 : 86

60. Haemaphysalis hoodi Warburton & Nuttall, 1909 .

Afrotropical: 1) Angola, 2) Benin, 3) Botswana, 4) Burkina Faso, 5) Cameroon, 6) Central African Republic, 7) Chad (south), 8) Congo, 9) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 10) Ethiopia, 11) Gabon, 12) Gambia, 13) Ghana, 14) Guinea, 15) Guinea-Bissau, 16) Ivory Coast, 17) Kenya, 18) Liberia, 19) Malawi, 20) Mali (south), 21) Mozambique, 22) Nigeria, 23) Senegal, 24) Sierra Leone, 25) South Africa, 26) South Sudan, 27) Tanzania, 28) Uganda, 29) Zambia, 30) Zimbabwe ( Hoogstraal 1956 a, Theiler 1962, Elbl & Anastos 1966 d, Aeschlimann 1967, Norval 1985c, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Konstantinov et al. 1990, Tandon 1991, Terenius et al. 2000, Morel 2003, Burridge 2011, Pourrut et al. 2011, ElGhali & Hassan 2012, Uilenberg et al. 2013, Horak et al. 2018, Sylla et al. 2018).

Santos Dias (1958a) listed alleged specimens of Haemaphysalis hoodi from Madagascar, and Burridge (2011) and Guglielmone & Robbins (2018) included Madagascar within the range of this tick. However, Uilenberg et al. (1979) found the tick identification in Santos Dias (1958a) to be erroneous. Burridge (2011) and Bailly-Choumara et al. (1980) listed a record of Haemaphysalis hoodi from Morocco (Palearctic Zoogeographic Region), but it is uncertain whether this tick is established there. Consequently, Madagascar and Morocco are not included within the range of this tick, a provisional decision.