Haemaphysalis erinacei Pavesi, 1884

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 85

46. Haemaphysalis erinacei Pavesi, 1884 .

Palearctic: 1) Afghanistan, 2) Algeria, 3) Armenia, 4) Azerbaijan, 5) Bosnia and Herzegovina, 6) Bulgaria, 7) China (north), 8) Croatia, 9) Egypt, 10) Georgia, 11) Greece, 12) Iran, 13) Iraq, 14) Israel, 15) Italy, 16) Jordan, 17) Kazakhstan, 18) Kyrgyzstan, 19) Libya, 20) Morocco, 21) North Macedonia, 22) Pakistan (west), 23) Palestine, 24) Romania, 25) Russia, 26) Saudi Arabia (north), 27) Syria, 28) Tajikistan, 29) Tunisia, 30) Turkey, 31) Turkmenistan, 32) Ukraine, 33) Uzbekistan ( Hoogstraal & Kaiser 1958a, Hoogstraal 1973a, Tovornik & Černý 1974, Saliba et al. 1990, Filippova 1997, Wassef et al. 1997, Morel 2003, Cringoli et al. 2005, Kolonin 2009, Chen et al. 2010, Bursali et al. 2012, Krčmar 2012, Qablan et al. 2012, Hornok et al. 2016 c, Fedorova 2017, Hosseini-Chegeni et al. 2019, Perfilyeva et al. 2020, Tsapko 2020, Perveen et al. 2021).

Some workers regard Haemaphysalis erinacei as a complex of several subspecies ( Feldman-Muhsam 1956, Filippova et al. 1993), and a number of records of this species have been published under the name Haemaphysalis numidiana , which is one of the several synonyms of Haemaphysalis erinacei in Guglielmone & Nava (2014). The geographic distribution of Haemaphysalis erinacei should be considered provisional.

The presence of Haemaphysalis erinacei in Bosnia and Herzegovina is based on Tovornik & Černý (1974), while records of this tick from Libya and North Macedonia are based on Morel (2003).

Morel (2003) included Spain within the range of Haemaphysalis erinacei , but Spain is excluded here. Zhang et al. (2021) listed Haemaphysalis erinacei as found in Hainan in southern China (Oriental Region), a decision not supported by Zhao et al. (2021). The presence of Haemaphysalis erinacei in the Oriental Zoogeographic Region requires confirmation, and China (south) is not included within the range of this tick.

Guglielmone et al. (2014) believe that more than one species exists under the name Haemaphysalis erinacei , and Hornok et al. (2016c) found important molecular differences between populations of this tick from northern China and Romania.