Ixodes kashmiricus Pomerantsev, 1948

Ixodes kaschmiricus Pomerantsev, 1948: 132; Filippova 1969: 675.

Ixodes persulcatus kaschmiricus Pomerantsev, 1948: 132; Filippova 1969: 675.

Recorded hosts.

Mammalia: Apodemus sylvaticus (wood mouse), Canis familiaris Linnaeus (dog), Ovis aries Linnaeus (sheep) (Filippova 1977).

Recorded locations

(Fig. 8). Kyrgyzstan: the Tien Shan – northern and eastern slopes of the Terskey Ala-too range (gorges Ulken-Kokpak and Chon-Dzhargylchak) (Filippova 1969).

Ecology and other information.

Ixodes kashmiricus is a tick species with a disjunctive relict range limited by the Tien Shan in Kyrgyzstan as well as India (Filippova 1977) and Pakistan (Numan et al. 2022). In Kyrgyzstan the tick was found mainly in the mid-altitude vertical zone of the mountains at the lower border of the forest at the altitude of 2000 and 2500 m a. s. l. Cases of parasitism on humans have been recorded (Hoogstraal 1970).

Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes showed that I. kashmiricus belongs to the I. ricinus group (Kovalev et al. 2018) and clusters with such members of the I. ricinus group as I. apronophorus and I. kazakstani (Numan et al. 2022) .

The type specimens are stored at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and include the lectotype - female; [India], Kashmir, Vardvan Maru River, northern tributary of Chinab River, 10 – 13. V. 1910, coll. S. P. Trubetskoi; AL I 533, as well as the paralectotype - male; AL 533 a. Ixodes kashmiricus (see: Filippova 1969: 677). Description – Filippova 1977: 292–296 (female, male, nymph, larva) (Filippova 2008). Originally the tick was named I. persulcatus kaschmiricus (lapsus).