Belongs within: Ixodida.
Haemaphysalis is a genus of ticks feeding on birds and mammals that is most diverse in the Old World. Significant representatives include the New World H. leporispalustris, an important vector of spotted fever and tularemia (Keirans 2009).
Characters (from Keirans 2009): Ornate; eyes absent; palpi short, with segment II as broad as long and usually much broader than long, obviously extended laterally, basis capituli dorsally rectangular.
<==Haemaphysalis Koch 1844 [Haemaphysalinae]KDB02 |--H. (Haemaphysalis)FKK91 | |--H. (H.) concinna Koch 1844FKK91, VR91 | |--H. (H.) flavaFKK91 | |--H. (H.) japonicaFKK91 | `--H. (H.) megaspinosaFKK91 |--H. (Aboimisalis) punctata Canestrini & Fanzago 1877FKK91, CF77 |--H. (Alloceraea) kitaokai Hoogstraal 1969KDB02 |--H. (Gonixodes) leporispalustrisF91 |--H. (Kaiseriana)FKK91 | |--H. (K.) bancrofti Nuttall & Warburton 1915FKK91, H98 (see below for synonymy) | |--H. (K.) cornigeraFKK91 | | |--H. c. cornigeraFKK91 | | |--H. c. iasFKK91 | | `--H. c. shimogaR72 | |--H. (K.) hystricisFKK91 | |--H. (K.) longicornis Neumann 1901FKK91, KDB02 [=H. concinna var. longicornisH98; incl. H. neumanni Dönitz 1905H98] | |--H. (K.) mageshimaensisFKK91 | `--H. (K.) yeniFKK91 `--H. (Ornithophysalis) humerosa Warburton & Nuttall 1909FKK91, H98 Haemaphysalis incertae sedis: H. aculeata Lavarra 1905R72 H. bispinosa Neumann 1897SL71 H. bremneri Roberts 1963H98 H. campanulataWN09 H. canastriniR72 H. centropi Kohls 1949R72 H. cuspidata Warburton 1910R72 H. dentipalpis Warburton & Nuttall 1909WN09 H. doenitzi Warburton & Nuttall 1909H98 H. erinacei Pavesi 1884 [incl. H. numidiana Neumann 1897]A56 H. formosensisR72 H. hoodi Warburton & Nuttall 1909WN09 H. howlettiR72 H. inermis Birula 1895VR91 H. intermedia Warburton & Nuttall 1909R72 [=H. bispinosa var. intermediaWN09] H. konigsbergeri Warburton & Nuttall 1909H98 H. kutchensisR72 H. kyasanurensis Trapido, Hoogstraal & Rajagopalan 1964R72 H. lagostrophi Roberts 1963H98 H. leachi (Audouin 1826)SL71 H. megalaimae Rajagopalan 1963R72 H. minuta Kohls 1950R72 H. novaeguineae Hirst 1914 [=H. spinigera var. novaeguineae]H98 H. papuanaR72 |--H. p. papuanaR72 `--H. p. kinneari Warburton 1913R72 H. petrogalis Roberts 1970H98 H. proxima Warburton & Nuttall 1909WN09 H. qinghainessLC96 H. ratti Kohls 1948H98 H. rhinolophi Canestrini & Fanzago 1877CF77 H. spiniceps Warburton & Nuttall 1909WN09 H. spinigera Neumann 1897R72 H. sulcata Canestrini & Fanzago 1877CF77 H. turturis Nuttall & Warburton 1915R72 H. vidua Warburton & Nuttall 1909WN09 H. wellingtoni Nuttall & Warburton 1907R72
Haemaphysalis (Kaiseriana) bancrofti Nuttall & Warburton 1915FKK91, H98 [incl. H. leachi var. australis Neumann 1905H98, H. meraukensis Taylor 1944H98]
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[A56] Anastos, G. 1956. The ticks (Acarina: Ixodoidea) of the J. Klapperich Afghanistan Expedition, 1952 and 1953. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46 (1): 18–19.
[CF77] Canestrini, G., & F. Fanzago. 1877. Intorno agli Acari Italiani. Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Serie 5, 4: 69–208, pls 2–7.
[F91] Filippova, N. A. 1991. A hypothesis for the palaeogenesis of the distribution of the main vectors for Lyme disease. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 1 pp. 109–118. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.
[FKK91] Fujisaki, K., T. Kamio & S. Kawazu. 1991. Theileria sergenti cannot be regarded as the same species as T. buffeli and T. orientalis because of its transmissibility only by Kaiseriana ticks. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 1 pp. 233–237. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.
[H98] Halliday, R. B. 1998. Mites of Australia: A checklist and bibliography. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.
[KDB02] Klompen, H., S. J. Dobson & S. C. Barker. 2002. A new subfamily, Bothriocrotoninae n. subfam., for the genus Bothriocroton Keirans, King & Sharrad, 1994 status amend. (Ixodida: Ixodidae), and the synonymy of Aponomma Neumann, 1899 with Amblyomma Koch, 1844. Systematic Parasitology 53: 101–107.
[LC96] Li, D., & Q. Chen. 1996. Studies on piroplasmoses and the tick (Ixodidae) vectors in China. In: Mitchell, R., D. J. Horn, G. R. Needham & W. C. Welbourn (eds) Acarology IX vol. 1. Proceedings pp. 469–471. Ohio Biological Survey: Columbus (Ohio).
[R72] Rajagopalan, P. K. 1972. Ixodid ticks (Acarina: Ixodidae) parasitizing wild birds in the Kyasanur Forest disease area of Shimoga District, Mysore State, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 69 (1): 55–78.
[SL71] Spain, A. V., & M. Luxton. 1971. Catalog and bibliography of the Acari of the New Zealand subregion. Pacific Insects Monograph 25: 179–226.
[VR91] Výrosteková, V., J. Řeháček, D. Guryčová & E. Kocianová. 1991. Prevalence of Francisella tularensis in ticks of Slovakia. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 2 pp. 55–59. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.
[WN09] Warburton, C., & G. H. F. Nuttall. 1909. On new species of Ixodidae, with a note on abnormalities observed in ticks. Parasitology 2 (1-2): 57–76.