Hyalomma anatolicum Koch, 1844a

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3. Hyalomma anatolicum Koch, 1844a .

Afrotropical: 1) Djibouti, 2) Eritrea, 3) Ethiopia, 4) Oman, 5) Saudi Arabia (south), 6) Somalia, 7) Sudan, 8) United Arab Emirates, 9) Yemen; Oriental: 1) Bangladesh, 2) India, 3) Nepal (south and central), 4) Pakistan (east); Palearctic: 1) Afghanistan, 2) Algeria, 3) Armenia, 4) Azerbaijan, 5) Bahrain, 6) China (north), 7) Cyprus, 8) Egypt, 9) Iran, 10) Iraq, 11) Israel, 12) Jordan, 13) Kazakhstan, 14) Kuwait, 15) Kyrgyzstan, 16) Lebanon, 17) Libya, 18) Morocco, 19) Pakistan (west), 20) Russia, 21) Saudi Arabia (north), 22) Syria, 23) Tajikistan, 24) Turkey, 25) Turkmenistan, 26) Uzbekistan ( Hoogstraal & Kaiser 1959 a, Hoogstraal 1980, Hoogstraal et al. 1981, Rahman & Mondal 1985, Wassef et al. 1997, Apanaskevich 2003b, Apanaskevich & Horak 2005, Chen et al. 2010, Fedorova 2012, Bursali et al. 2012, Shubber et al. 2014, Dabaja et al. 2017, Karim et al. 2017, Estrada-Peña et al. 2017, Pun et al. 2018, Alanazi et al. 2019, Hosseini-Chegeni et al. 2019, Perfilyeva et al. 2020, Springer et al. 2020, Zhao et al. 2021).

Hyalomma anatolicum and Hyalomma excavatum have been confused with each other for decades, generally under the names Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum and Hyalomma anatolicum excavatum , respectively. This situation was clarified through the studies of Apanaskevich (2003b), Apanaskevich & Horak (2005) and Apanaskevich & Filippova (2007).

Camicas et al. (1998) did not recognize the presence of Hyalomma anatolicum in the Afrotropical Region, but this zoogeographic region is included within the range of this tick here.

The presence of Hyalomma anatolicum in Eritrea is based on Hoogstraal (1956a), who discussed this species under the name Hyalomma excavatum . Hyalomma anatolicum was not listed as occurring in China by Apanaskevich (2003b) and Apanaskevich & Horak (2005), although they recognized that it might be found there. Chinese workers agree that Hyalomma anatolicum is present in northwestern China ( Chen et al. 2010, Zhao et al. 2021, among others), and China is here considered to be within the range of Hyalomma anatolicum . Apanaskevich & Horak (2005) stated that Hyalomma anatolicum may be found in Cyprus, while Camicas et al. (1998) treated Hyalomma savignyi exsul , described by Schulze & Schlottke (2029a) from specimens collected in Cyprus, as a synonym of Hyalomma anatolicum . Therefore, this tick is provisionally regarded as present in Cyprus.

Contrary to Apanaskevich & Horak (2005) and Estrada-Peña et al. (2017), Kolonin (2009) cited Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and ex-Yugoslavian countries as within the range of Hyalomma anatolicum , but no information has been found to support this claim. Although Nader et al. (2018) reported the presence of Hyalomma anatolicum in Bulgaria, we feel that that its presence there requires confirmation. Adjogoua et al. (2021) reported Hyalomma anatolicum from the Ivory Coast, but this record also needs confirmation.