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 108. Haemaphysalis nepalensis Hoogstraal, 1962a . Oriental: 1) China (south), 2) India , 3) Nepal (south and central); Palearctic: 1) China (north), 2) Nepal (north and central) ( Dhanda 1964 b , Hoogstraal & Kim 1985, Chen et al. 2010 , Geevarghese & Mishra 2011 , Pun et al. 2018 ). Camicas et al. (1998) treated Haemaphysalis nepalensis as found only in the Oriental Zoogeographic Region, although Zhao et al. (2021) did not recognize its presence in southern China , which lies within the Oriental Region.