Haemaphysalis formosensis Neumann, 1913

This is predominantly an East Asian species that has also been found in Vietnam and the Philippines (Hoogstraal and Kim 1985; Teng and Jiang 1991; Kolonin 1995). A wide variety of hosts are known from the mammal families Bovidae, Canidae, Cervidae, Herpestidae, Hystricidae, Leporidae, Suidae, Moschidae, Muridae, Tupaiidae, Ursidae and Vespertilionidae, as well as the bird families Corvidae, Phasianidae, Scolopacidae (Ma et al. 2001; Guglielmone et al. 2014), and, in South Korea, migratory species in the family Turdidae (Choi et al. 2014) .

The female is illustrated in Yamaguti et al. (1971).