11. Haemaphysalis bancrofti Nuttall and Warburton, 1915. An Australasian species with one record in the Oriental Zoogeographic Region, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Diprotodontia: Macropodidae, but they have also been recovered from Diprotodontia: Phascolarctidae. Adults and nymphs have been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Carnivora: Canidae, Peramelemorphia: Peramelidae, and Perissodactyla: Equidae. Adults and larvae have been taken from Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae; adult ticks alone have been found on Artiodactyla: Suidae, and Carnivora: Felidae; immature stages have been recovered from Diprotodontia: Phalangeridae and Potoroidae, and Cuculiformes: Cuculidae. Haemaphysalis bancrofti is a sporadic parasite of humans. M: Nuttall and Warburton (1915) F: Nuttall and Warburton (1915) N: Nuttall and Warburton (1915) L: Nuttall and Warburton (1915) Redescriptions M: Roberts (1963 a, 1970), Laan et al. (2011a), Barker and Walker (2014) F: Roberts (1963 a, 1970), Laan et al. (2011a), Barker and Walker (2014) N: Roberts (1963 a, 1970), Laan et al. (2011a) L: Roberts (1969), Laan et al. (2011a) Note: Haemaphysalis novaeguineae Krijgsman and Ponto, a preoccupied name changed to Haemaphysalis meraukensis by Taylor (1944), was described from a male tick in Krijgsman and Ponto (1932) that was found to be a synonym of Haemaphysalis bancrofti, as explained in Roberts (1963a). See also Haemaphysalis anomala for its confusion with Haemaphysalis bancrofti.

Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, pp. 1-322 in Zootaxa 4871 (1) on page 151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340