Genus Ornithodoros

Ornithodoros species have been reported from different localities in Shangla, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Bajuar, and Orakzai, infesting Asian water buffaloes and their sheds in high mountainous regions. Three Ornithodoros species have been reported in Pakistan: Ornithodoros papillipes (Birula, 1895), Ornithodoros tholozani (Laboulbène and Mégnin, 1882), and possibly the new species Ornithodoros (Pavlovskyella) pakistanensis (Fig. 8) (Doss 1974; Hoogstraal 1985; Karim et al. 2017; Ali et al. 2022b, 2024c). Morphological identification of ticks collected during this survey confirmed the presence only of Or. (Pavlovskyella) pakistanensis .