Ixodes himalayensis Dhanda & Kulkarni, 1969

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104. Ixodes himalayensis Dhanda & Kulkarni, 1969 .

Oriental: 1) India, 2) Nepal (south and central) ( Clifford et al. 1975a).

Clifford et al. (1975a) collected females and immature stages of this tick in Nepal and compared their specimens with the descriptions of Ixodes himalayensis , finding no morphological differences among females, while some differences were noted when larval and nymphal specimens were compared with their original descriptions. As a consequence, Clifford et al. (1975a) classified their Nepalese ticks as Ixodes near himalayensis .

Kolonin (2009) included Afghanistan (Palearctic) within the range of Ixodes himalayensis but provided no justification for doing so. Hoogstraal (1973a) listed Ixodes himalayensis as a species found in Afghanistan but stated that this tick is “unknown elsewhere,” which may be a typographical error, because Ixodes himalayensis was only known from Indian specimens until it was collected in Nepal by Clifford et al. (1975a). We tentatively exclude Afghanistan from the range of Ixodes himalayensis .