Rhipicephalus pumilio Schulze, 1935a

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 127

64. Rhipicephalus pumilio Schulze, 1935a .

Oriental: 1) China (south); Palearctic: 1) China (north), 2) Kazakhstan, 3) Kyrgyzstan, 4) Mongolia, 5) Russia, 6) Tajikistan, 7) Turkmenistan, 8) Uzbekistan (Voltzit & Lvov 1986, Liao & Lai 1995, Filippova 1997, Walker et al. 2000, Kolonin 2009, Fedorova 2012, Černý et al. 2019, Perfilyeva et al. 2020, Tsapko 2020).

Filippova (1997) stated that Rhipicephalus pumilio was confused with Rhipicephalus schulzei in Zumpt (1939), while Zahler et al. (1997) found molecular evidence suggesting that Rhipicephalus pumilio and Rhipicephalus rossicus are conspecific.

The presence of Rhipicephalus pumilio in southern China (Oriental Zoogeographic Region) is based on Liao & Lai (1995), who found this tick in Guangxi Province. This record is treated as valid by Chen et al. (2010), Zhang, G. et al. (2019) and Zhang, Y.K. et al. (2019) but not by Zhao et al. (2021).