5. Dermacentor bellulus (Schulze, 1935c) .

Oriental: 1) China (south), 2) Japan (the Ryukyu Islands), 3) Laos, 4) Nepal (south and central), 5) Taiwan, 6) Vietnam; Palearctic: 1) Japan (except the Ryukyu Islands) (Apanaskevich & Apanaskevich 2015 b, Kwak 2018, Vongphayloth et al. 2018b).

Dermacentor bellulus was reinstated by Apanaskevich & Apanaskevich (2015b); prior to this study, it was confused with Dermacentor taiwanensis .

The presence of Dermacentor bellulus in China is not recognized by Zhang, G. et al. (2019), Zhang, Y.K. et al. (2019) and Zhao et al. (2021).