123. Haemaphysalis pavlovskyi Pospelova-Shtrom, 1935 .

Palearctic: 1) Kyrgyzstan, 2) Tajikistan (Filippova 1997, Fedorova 2012).

Hoogstraal & Wassef (1973) considered it probable that Haemaphysalis pavlovskyi is a synonym of Haemaphysalis doenitzi, while Camicas et al. (1998) and Kolonin (2009) listed Haemaphysalis pavlovskyi as a synonym of Haemaphysalis doenitzi . Nevertheless, Hoogstraal & Kim (1985), Filippova (1997) and Guglielmone et al. (2009, 2014, 2020) treated Haemaphysalis pavlovskyi as valid, a view also accepted here.

Fedorova (2012) listed Haemaphysalis pavlovskyi as being found in Kyrgyzstan, and this country is provisionally included within the geographic distribution of Haemaphysalis pavlovskyi .

Hoogstraal et al. (1963a) collected Haemaphysalis pavlovskyi on migrating birds captured in Egypt, but this tick is not considered to be established there.