50. Haemaphysalis formosensis Neumann, 1913b .

An Oriental and Palearctic species whose adults and immature stages have been found on Artiodactyla: Cervidae and Suidae, Carnivora: Canidae, Lagomorpha: Leporidae, and Galliformes: Phasianidae; adults alone have been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae and Moschidae, Carnivora: Ursidae, Pholidota: Manidae, and Rodentia: Hystricidae and Muridae; immature stages have been recovered from Carnivora: Felidae, Herpestidae and Mustelidae, Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae, Scandentia: Tupaiidae, Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae, and Passeriformes: Corvidae, Muscicapidae and Turdidae (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Iwakami et al. 2014, Khatri-Chhetri et al. 2016, Kuo et al. 2017). There are no records of Haemaphysalis formosensis causing human parasitism.

M: Neumann (1913b)

F: Neumann (1913b)

N: Yamaguti et al. (1971)

L: Yamaguti et al. (1971)

Redescriptions

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yamaguti (1981), Teng and Jiang (1991), Yamauchi and Takada (2015)

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1915), Sugimoto (1937b), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Yama-guti (1981), Teng and Jiang (1991), Yamauchi and Takada (2015)

N: Kitaoka (1985), Teng and Jiang (1991), Fujita and Takada (2007)

L: Kitaoka (1985), Teng and Jiang (1991), Fujita and Takada (2007)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) list the larva and nymph of Haemaphysalis formosensis as undescribed, but there are descriptions and redescriptions published before 1998 that are treated here as valid.