Haemaphysalis bancrofti Nuttall & Warburton, 1915

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11. Haemaphysalis bancrofti Nuttall & Warburton, 1915 .

Australasian: 1) Australia, 2) Indonesia (east of Wallace´s Line), 3) Papua New Guinea; Oriental: 1) Indonesia (west of Wallace’s Line) ( Roberts 1970, Hoogstraal & Kim 1985, Owen 2011).

The presence of Haemaphysalis bancrofti in the Australasian portion of Indonesia is based on Krijgsman & Ponto (1932), who referred to this tick as Haemaphysalis novaeguineae , a preoccupied name that was renamed Haemaphysalis meraukensis by Taylor (1944) and Haemaphysalis krijgsmani by Kohls (1948b).

Haemaphysalis bancrofti , under the name Haemaphysalis novaeguineae Krijgsman & Ponto, 1932 , was listed as a Vietnamese tick by Phan Trong (1977), but its presence there was not recognized by Kolonin (2009) and Petney et al. (2019), and this view is also accepted here.