Haemaphysalis kitaokai Hoogstraal, 1969

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78. Haemaphysalis kitaokai Hoogstraal, 1969 .

Oriental: 1) China (south), 2) Taiwan; Palearctic: 1) China (north), 2) Japan (except the Ryukyu Islands) ( Yamaguti et al. 1971, Robbins 2005, Chen et al. 2010, Takano et al. 2014, Li et al. 2020).

Camicas et al. (1998) listed Haemaphysalis kitaokai as a Palearctic species, but there are several records of this tick from the Oriental Zoogeographic Region.

Haemaphysalis kitaokai was originally classified as Haemaphysalis ambigua by Neumann (1906) , and there are additional records of this tick published under the names Haemaphysalis ambigua , Haemaphysalis inermis and Haemaphysalis inermis aponommoides , as explained in Yamaguti et al. (1971).

Molecular analyses of populations of Haemaphysalis kitaokai by Li et al. (2018) indicate that more than one species may exist under this name.