Ixodes semenovi Olenev, 1929

Ixodes semenovi Olenev, 1929: 489 .

Recorded hosts.

Aves: Prunella collaris (alpine accentor), Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (Linnaeus) (red-billed chough) (Filippova 1977).

Recorded locations

(Fig. 32). Kazakhstan: Tian Shan – the northern slope of the Kyrgyz Ala-Too Range, the source of the river Merke (Jambyl Region) (Olenev 1929 b). Kyrgyzstan: Terskey Ala-too Range (Grebenyuk 1961, 1966).

Ecology and other information.

Ixodes semenovi is a very rare species in the post-Soviet territories known only from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, from the Tian Shan, where it inhabits rocks at an altitude of 2000 m a. s. l. (Filippova 1977). The type specimen of I. semenovi is deposited at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences: the holotype - female; Mi [ddle] Asia, Aleksandrovskii Mt. Range [Kirgizskii Ala Tau], source of Merke River, Aral-Tyube, from Accentor collaris, 4. VII. 1929, coll. I. A. Portenko; AL I 549. Description – Filippova 1977: 219–223 (female, male, nymph; larva unknown) (Filippova 2008).