Hyalomma turanicum Pomerantzev, 1946

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 : 110-111

27. Hyalomma turanicum Pomerantzev, 1946 .

Afrotropical: 1) Oman, 2) Saudi Arabia (south), 3) Yemen; Oriental: 1) India, 2) Pakistan (east); Palearctic: 1) Afghanistan, 2) Bahrain, 3) China (north), 4) Egypt, 5) Iran, 6) Iraq, 7) Israel, 8) Jordan, 9) Kazakhstan, 10) Kuwait, 11) Kyrgyzstan, 12) Nepal (north and central), 13) Pakistan (west), 14) Qatar, 15) Saudi Arabia (north), 16) Syria, 17) Tajikistan, 18) Uzbekistan ( Hoogstraal et al. 1970 a, Geevarghese & Dhanda 1987, Saliba et al. 1990, Apanaskevich & Horak 2008 b, Kleinerman et al. 2013, Shubber et al. 2014, Karim et al. 2017, Pun et al. 2018, Alanazi et al. 2019, Zhao et al. 2021).

Many records of Hyalomma turanicum have been published under the name Hyalomma marginatum turanicum , a name still used by Alanazi et al. (2019) and others.

Hyalomma turanicum is difficult to identify morphologically, as emphasized by Apanaskevich & Horak (2008b), and its supposed presence in several countries has generated controversy.

Apanaskevich & Horak (2008b) stated that Hyalomma rufipes from China, as recorded in Teng & Jiang (1991), is, in fact, Hyalomma turanicum . Chen et al. (2010) and Zhang G. et al. (2019) maintained that Hyalomma rufipes but not Hyalomma turanicum is present in northern China, while Zhang Y.K. et al. (2019) and Zhao et al. (2021) held the opposite view. Here, China is provisionally treated as being within the geographic range of Hyalomma turanicum . Hosseini-Chegeni et al. (2019) and Perfilyeva et al. (2020) did not recognize Hyalomma turanicum as occurring in Iran and Kazakhstan, respectively, and these countries are also provisionally included within the distribution of this tick.

Apanaskevich & Horak (2008b) were unable to confirm the presence of Hyalomma turanicum in Cyprus, Libya, and Tunisia because the specimens from these countries that were thought to represent Hyalomma turanicum were in fact Hyalomma marginatum . Bursali et al. (2012) listed Hyalomma turanicum as found in Turkey, but Hekimoglu & Ozer (2017) failed to confirm this statement, and Turkey is provisionally excluded from the geographic distribution of this tick. Tsapko (2020) indicated that records of Hyalomma turanicum from Russia require confirmation, and Russia is also excluded from this species’ range. The records of specimens of Hyalomma turanicum from Somalia and Nigeria by Pegram (1976) and Mamman et al. (2021), respectively, require further studies to determine whether such specimens represent endemic tick populations; in the interim, these countries are not included within the range of this tick. Albania is included within the distribution of Hyalomma turanicum by Gargili et al. (2017) using a reference that does not support such a conclusion.