40. Haemaphysalis darjeeling Hoogstraal & Dhanda, 1970 .

Oriental: 1) India, 2) Laos, 3) Myanmar, 4) Thailand (Tanskul & Inlao 1989, Geevarghese & Mishra 2011, Vongphayloth et al. 2016, Petney et al. 2019).

The holotype of Haemaphysalis darjeeling was originally identified as Haemaphysalis birmaniae . Kolonin (2009) treated the morphological redescription of Haemaphysalis darjeeling in Tanskul & Inlao (1989) as closer to that of Haemaphysalis quadriaculeata than to Haemaphysalis darjeeling .

Vongphayloth et al. (2016) listed specimens found in Laos as Haemaphysalis darjeeling or a species close to it; therefore, Laos is provisionally considered to be within the range of this tick.

Vongphayloth et al. (2016) included Nepal and Malaysia within the geographic distribution of Haemaphysalis darjeeling, but its presence in those countries could not be confirmed during this review.