Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides Supino, 1897

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 : 120

34. Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides Supino, 1897 .

Australasian: 1) East Timor, 2) Indonesia (east of Wallace’s Line); Oriental: 1) Bhutan (south), 2) Cambodia, 3) China (south), 4) India, 5) Indonesia (west of Wallace’s Line), 6) Laos, 7) Malaysia, 8) Myanmar, 9) Nepal (south), 10) Pakistan (east), 11) Sri Lanka, 12) Taiwan, 13) Thailand, 14) Vietnam; Palearctic: 1) Afghanistan, 2) China (north), 3) Pakistan (west) ( Anastos 1950, Silva 1960, Tanskul et al. 1983, Keirans 1985b, Kolonin 1995 b, 2009, Robbins et al. 1997, Walker et al. 2000, Robbins 2005, Ghosh et al. 2007, Durden et al. 2008, Chen et al. 2010, Bettencourt et al. 2015, Liyanaarachchi et al. 2015 a, Vongphayloth et al. 2016, Karim et al. 2017, Kuo et al. 2017, Pun et al. 2018, Petney et al. 2019, Namgyal et al. 2021, Zhao et al. 2021).

Camicas et al. (1998) listed Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides as occurring only in the Oriental Zoogeographic Region, but this tick has also been found in the Australasian and Palearctic Regions.

Walker et al. (2000) stated that the presence of Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides in the Philippines requires confirmation, and we do not include that country within the range of this tick.

Li et al. (2018), working with different populations of Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides , found molecular evidence suggesting that more than one species exists under this name.