Haemaphysalis ornithophila Hoogstraal and Kohls, 1959

Haemaphysalis ornithophila is an Oriental and Palearctic forest species (Guglielmone et al. 2014). It has been recorded from Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as from Nepal, India, the Philippines and China. Specimens from Taiwan, South Korea and Siberia have been recovered from migrating birds (Hoogstraal and Kohls 1959; Wilson 1970; Hoogstraal and Wassef 1973; Phan Trong 1977; Teng and Jiang 1971; Kolonin 1985, 1995; Robbins 2005; Ghosh et al. 2007; Kim et al. 2009). As its name indicates, this is mainly a parasite of birds (Gheevargese and Mishra 2011), although Mustelidae, Leporidae and Bovidae have also been reported (Guglielmone et al. 2014).

The male and female are described in Hoogstraal and Kohls (1959), the nymph by Geevarghese & Mishra (2011).