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 .