Ixodes moschiferi Nemenz, 1968

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154. Ixodes moschiferi Nemenz, 1968 .

Palearctic: 1) China (north), 2) Nepal (north and central) ( Nemenz 1968, Teng 1982a, Chen et al. 2010, Pun et al. 2018).

Some Chinese records of Ixodes moschiferi have been published under the name Ixodes rangtangensis , a synonym of Ixodes moschiferi in Teng (1986), Camicas et al. (1998) and Guglielmone et al. (2009), but treated as a valid species in Horak et al. (2002).

Camicas et al. (1998) regarded Ixodes moschiferi as an Oriental species. Clifford et al. (1975a) stated that the type specimen of Ixodes moschiferi , collected in Thâmi, Solokhumbu District, Nepal ( Nemenz 1968, Pun et al. 2018), was found on a host at an altitude of 1000 m, but Nemenz (1968) clearly indicated that it was collected at an altitude of 4000 m. Teng (1982a) listed Rangtang (northwestern Sichuan), Tibet and Qinghai as collection localities of Ixodes moschiferi and its synonym, Ixodes rangtangensis Teng, 1973 . All these localities are regarded as lying within the Palearctic Region; consequently, we follow Guglielmone et al. (2014, 2020) in treating Ixodes moschiferi as a Palearctic species.