Genus Ixodes

Four species of the genus Ixodes have been reported infesting rodents and small ruminants in Pakistan’s northern areas. These species are Ixodes hyatti Clifford, Hoogstraal and Kohls, 1971, Ixodes kashmiricus Pomerantzev, 1948, Ixodes redikorzevi Olenev, 1927, and Ixodes stromi Filippova, 1957 (Fig. 33) (McCarthy 1967; Begum et al. 1970a, b; Clifford et al. 1971; Numan et al. 2022, 2023; Hussain et al. 2023; Guglielmone et al. 2023). This tick survey yielded only I. kashmiricus .