Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae Hoogstraal, 1966b

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 : 96

128. Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae Hoogstraal, 1966b .

Palearctic: 1) China (north), 2) Georgia, 3) Kyrgyzstan, 4) Mongolia, 5) Russia, 6) Tajikistan, 7) Turkey (Hoogstraal 1966 b, Hoogstraal & Kim 1985, Voltzit & L’vov 1986, Kiefer et al. 2010, Bursali et al. 2012, Fedorova 2017, Černý, J. et al. 2019, Tsapko 2020).

Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae has been widely confused with Haemaphysalis warburtoni , as discussed in Hoogstraal (1966b). Kolonin (2009) treated Haemaphysalis danieli as a synonym of Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae , an opinion not shared here.

Chen et al. (2011), Zhang, G. et al. (2019) and Zhang, Y.K. et al. (2019) did not list Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae as occurring in China, contrary to Sun et al. (2011) and Zhao et al. (2021), who included it within that country, the last-named authors citing many records from northern China, which is tentatively included within the range of this tick. The presence of Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae in Turkey is provisional and based on Bursali et al. (2012), who listed Haemaphysalis aksarensis , a name treated as a synonym of Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae in Guglielmone et al. (2014), as a Turkish species.