Haemaphysalis aponommoides Warburton, 1913

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 : 78

8. Haemaphysalis aponommoides Warburton, 1913 .

Oriental: 1) China (south), 2) India, 3) Nepal (south and central); Palearctic: 1) China (north), 2) Nepal (north and central) ( Hoogstraal & Mitchell 1971, Kolonin 2009, Chen et al. 2010, Pun et al. 2018).

Phan Trong (1977) included Vietnam within the range of Haemaphysalis aponommoides , but this is not supported by other workers. Geevarghese & Mishra (2011) included Iran, Taiwan and Japan within the geographic range of Haemaphysalis aponommoides , based on Hoogstraal (1962a). The presence of this tick in Iran is supported by a female specimen listed in Delpy (1938), but Hosseini-Chegeni et al. (2019) excluded Haemaphysalis aponommoides from the Iranian tick fauna, while Robbins (2005) explained that supposed Taiwanese Haemaphysalis aponommoides were in fact Haemaphysalis kitaokai . Yamaguti et al. (1971) also noted that the alleged occurrence of Haemaphysais aponommoides in Japan (under the name Haemaphysalis inermis aponommoides ) is not based on bona fide specimens. Therefore, Vietnam, Iran, Taiwan and Japan are not included within the geographic distribution of Haemaphysalis aponommoides .