Haemaphysalis hispanica is a tick species found in Europe. It is a relict parasite of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus. The parasite probably has no role in transmitting pathogens to humans, but it can be of certain importance in the epidemiology of some diseases by maintaining the etiologic agent in a tick-vertebrate-tick cycle, one that can be intruded into by immature or adult stages of species that sometimes parasitize humans. H. hispanica is related to species parasitizing carnivores in Asia and Madagascar, and hyraxes in the Ethiopian Faunal Region.