Haemaphysalis inermis Birula, 1895

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 : 88

71. Haemaphysalis inermis Birula, 1895 .

Palearctic: 1) Albania, 2) Armenia, 3) Austria, 4) Azerbaijan, 5) Bosnia and Herzegovina, 6) Bulgaria, 7) Croatia, 8) Czechia, 9) France, 10) Georgia, 11) Greece, 12) Hungary, 13) Iran, 14) Italy, 15) Kosovo, 16) Moldova, 17) Montenegro, 18) North Macedonia, 19) Portugal, 20) Romania, 21) Russia, 22) Serbia, 23) Slovakia, 24) Spain, 25) Turkey, 26) Ukraine ( Oswald 1939, Feider 1965, Papadopoulos et al. 1996, Filippova 1997, Morel 2003, Cringoli et al. 2005, Kolonin 2009, Santos-Silva et al. 2011, Bursali et al. 2012, Krčmar 2012, Sherifi et al. 2014, Estrada-Peña et al. 2017, Hosseini-Chegeni et al. 2019, Hornok et al. 2020a, Tsapko 2020).

The presence of Haemaphysalis inermis in Austria is based on Kolonin (2009) and Estrada-Peña et al. (2017).

Haemaphysalis ambigua was described by Neumann (1906) and is considered to be a synonym of Haemaphysalis inermis ; however, specimens of Haemaphysalis ambigua from Japan were later recognized to be Haemaphysalis kitaokai , as discussed in Guglielmone et al. (2020).

Kolonin (2009) and Nowak-Chmura & Siuda (2012) did not recognize the presence of Haemaphysalis inermis in Poland, while Hillyard (1996) and Estrada-Peña et al. (2017) listed this tick as found there. We provisionally exclude Poland from the range of Haemaphysalis inermis . Several reports reference the presence of Haemaphysalis inermis in Taiwan (Oriental Region), but this tick is not thought to occur there by Robbins (2005), whose opinion is supported here.