Ixodes turdus Nakatsudi, 1942a

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 : 36

249. Ixodes turdus Nakatsudi, 1942a .

Oriental: 1) India, 2) Taiwan; Palearctic: 1) Japan (except the Ryukyu Islands), 2) Nepal (north and central), 3) South Korea ( Rao et al. 1973, Clifford et al. 1975 a, Miyamoto et al. 2000, Sames et al. 2008, Kuo et al. 2017).

Guglielmone & Robbins (2018) listed Taiwan (Oriental) within the geographic distribution of Ixodes turdus but regarded this species as found only in the Palearctic Region. These authors also excluded India from this species’ range, but its presence in India is based on Rao et al. (1973). Specimens of Ixodes turdus from Nepal and Japan are close morphologically ( Clifford et al. 1975a), but also molecularly ( Xu et al. 2003, Takano et al. 2014), and Nepal is therefore included within the range of Ixodes turdus , a tick described from specimens collected in Japan.

Bolotin & Kolonin (1979) found Ixodes turdus on migratory birds in the Russian Far East but believe that this tick is not established there, an opinion also shared by Tsapko (2020), and that territory is excluded from the range of Ixodes turdus .