Haemaphysalis flava Neumann, 1897

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49. Haemaphysalis flava Neumann, 1897 .

Oriental: 1) China (south), 2) Japan (the Ryukyu Islands), 3) Taiwan; Palearctic: 1) China (north), 2) Japan (except the Ryukyu Islands), 3) Russia, 4) South Korea ( Yamaguti et al. 1971, Kitaoka & Suzuki 1974, Filippova 1997, Robbins 2005, Chen et al. 2010, Kim et al. 2011 a, Takano et al. 2014, Kuo et al. 2017, Tsapko 2020, Seo et al. 2021).

Haemaphysalis flava is not found in India ( Geevarghese & Mishra 2011). This tick has been confused with the Indian species Haemaphysalis indoflava , described by Dhanda & Bhat (1968b). Nevertheless, Estrada-Peña & Jongejan (1999), Kassiri & Nasirian (2021) and Nasirian & Zahirnia (2021) listed Haemaphysalis flava as an Indian tick. Iqbal & Nawaz (2007) and Razman et al. (2020b) allegedly found Haemaphysalis flava in Pakistan, but its presence there is probably based on a diagnostic error.