Haemaphysalis ornithophila Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1959

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 : 94

116. Haemaphysalis ornithophila Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1959 .

Oriental: 1) China (south), 2) India, 3) Laos, 4) Myanmar, 5) Nepal (south and central), 6) Philippines, 7) Taiwan, 8) Thailand, 9) Vietnam; Palearctic: 1) China (north) ( Hoogstraal & Wassef 1973, Tanskul & Inlao 1989, Robbins 2005, Chen et al. 2010, Geevarghese & Mishra 2011, Vongphayloth et al. 2016, Kuo et al. 2017, Petney et al. 2019, Zhao et al. 2021).

The presence of Haemaphysalis ornithophila in Vietnam is based on Phan Trong (1977), who discussed this tick under the name Haemaphysalis bacthaiensis , a synonym ( Kolonin 1995b). Hoogstraal & Kim (1985) included Nepal within the range of Haemaphysalis ornithophila without providing the localities where this tick was found; therefore, its inclusion here as an Oriental species in Nepal is tentative.

The presence of Haemaphysalis ornithophila in Russia and South Korea is based on records from migrating birds infested elsewhere ( Tsapko 2020, Kim et al 2009, Chong et al. 2018); consequently, these countries are not included within the range of this tick.