Daniel's western Himalayan haemaphysaline

Camicas et al. (1998) listed Haemaphysalis danieli as an Oriental species, but this tick is also found in the Palearctic (Guglielmone et al. 2014). Some records of Haemaphysalis danieli have been published under the name Haemaphysalis xinjiangensis, described by Teng (1980 a), a synonym of Haemaphysalis danieli, as explained in Teng & Jiang (1991). However, Kolonin (2009) treated Haemaphysalis xinjiangensis and Haemaphysalis danieli as synonyms of Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae, while Camicas et al. (1998) and others have continued to treat these three names as valid, a view not supported here. Apparently, Zhao et al. (2021) support the opinion of Kolonin (2009) because both Haemaphysalis danieli and Haemaphysalis xinjiangensis are ignored in their list of Chinese ticks, while Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae is included as a Chinese species. Nevertheless, Haemaphysalis danieli is treated here as a species found in northern China.