Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, 1930

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 : 28

184. Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, 1930 .

Oriental: 1) China (south), 2) Taiwan; Palearctic: 1) Belarus, 2) China (north), 3) Estonia, 4) Finland, 5) Japan (except the Ryukyu Islands), 6) Kazakhstan, 7) Kyrgyzstan, 8) Latvia, 9) Lithuania, 10) Mongolia, 11) North Korea, 12) Poland, 13) Russia, 14) South Korea, 15) Sweden, 16) Ukraine, 17) Uzbekistan ( Filippova 1985, Jaenson et al. 1994, Robbins 2005, Uspensky 2008, 2016, Chen et al. 2010, Kiefer et al. 2010, Kim et al. 2011 a, Fedorova 2012, Nowak-Chmura & Siuda 2012, Akramova et al. 2016, Jaenson et al. 2016, Capligina et al. 2020, Perfilyeva et al. 2020, Tsapko 2020, Li et al. 2022).

Filippova (1985) cautioned that Ixodes persulcatus can be confused with the related species Ixodes kashmiricus , Ixodes kazakstani , Ixodes nipponensis , Ixodes pavlovskyi and Ixodes ricinus , while Estrada-Peña et al. (2017) noted that specimens of Ixodes persulcatus and Ixodes ricinus from northwestern Europe may also be confused with one another because these species are known to occur in the same localities and parasitize the same hosts.

Petney et al. (2012) discussed the limited records of Ixodes persulcatus from Germany, concluding that this species is not established in that country. Guglielmone & Robbins (2018) listed Hungary as being within the range of Ixodes persulcatus , but Hornok et al. (2020a) found that this tick is not established there. Estrada-Peña et al. (2017) listed Turkey within the geographic distribution of Ixodes persulcatus , based on Bursali et al. (2010), but its presence in Turkey was not confirmed in Bursali et al. (2012). We do not include Germany, Hungary and Turkey within the geographic distribution of Ixodes persulcatus .