Genus Dermacentor

Previously, one species of Dermacentor, Dermacentor raskemensis Pomerantzev, 1946, was reported to infest goats, sheep and Markhor ( Capra falconeri) in the Hindu Kush, Suleiman, Karakoram and Himalaya ranges (Fig. 13) (McCarthy 1967; Dhanda et al. 1971; Apanaskevich 2013). However, two undetermined species— Dermacentor cf. marginatus and Dermacentor sp. —were morphologically and molecularly identified in recent studies (Ahmad et al. 2023; Ali et al. 2024a) that require mitogenome analyses prior to being recognized as novel species. Dermacentor collections made during our study revealed the presence of two species, D. montanus, and D. raskemensis, with D. montanus here reported for the first time in Pakistan.