Ixodes berlesei Birula, 1895

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 : 10

31. Ixodes berlesei Birula, 1895 .

Palearctic: 1) China (north), 2) Kazakhstan, 3) Kyrgyzstan, 4) Mongolia, 5) Nepal (north and central), 6) Russia, 7) Tajikistan, 8) Turkmenistan ( Filippova 1977, Kolonin 2009, Federova 2012, Chen et al. 2010, Kiefer et al. 2010, Pun et al. 2018, Tsapko 2020).

There are morphological differences between the description of the female of Ixodes berlesei in Yu et al. (1997) and the descriptions of other workers; as well, the larva of this tick in Clifford et al. (1975a) differs from the larva depicted in Filippova (1958, 1997). Clifford et al. (1975a) classified their specimens from Nepal as Ixodes berlesei or a species close to it. According to Filippova (1997), the name Ixodes berlesei has been applied to different species, such as Ixodes caledonicus .

The presence of Ixodes berlesei in Mongolia is based on Kiefer et al. (2010), but this was not recognized by Černý, J. et al. (2019), while Perfilyeva et al. (2020) did not list Ixodes berlesei as present in Kazakhstan, but it was recorded from that country by Kolonin (2009) and others. Mongolia and Kazakhstan are provisionally included within the geographic distribution of Ixodes berlesei .