Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories Author Guglielmone, Alberto A. 0000-0001-5430-2889 guglielmone.alberto@inta.gob.ar Author Nava, Santiago 0000-0001-7791-4239 nava.santiago@inta.gob.ar Author Robbins, Richard G. 0000-0003-2443-5271 robbinsrg@si.edu text Zootaxa 2023 2023-03-07 5251 1 1 274 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1 journal article 235222 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1 43227427-a867-4744-9e4c-2b2302524890 1175-5326 7704190 3326BF76-A2FB-4244-BA4C-D0AF81F55637 161. Haemaphysalis taiwana Sugimoto, 1936 . Oriental: 1) China (south), 2) Taiwan ( Robbins 2005 , Chen et al. 2010 , Zhao et al. 2021 ). Some reports of Haemaphysalis taiwana have been published under the name Haemaphysalis cornigera taiwana . Kolonin (2009) accepted a broader range for this tick than presented here because he regarded Haemaphysalis anomaloceraea and Haemaphysalis shimoga as synonyms of Haemaphysalis taiwana , but these three species are valid in Guglielmone et al. (2010 b , 2014, 2020) and here. Teng & Jiang (1991) treated Haemaphysalis taiwana as a synonym of Haemaphysalis cornigera , but Chen et al. (2010) , Zhang, G. et al. (2019) and Zhang, Y.K. et al. (2019), among others, have considered Haemaphysalis taiwana valid, and southern China is included within the range of this tick.