Ixodes monospinosus Saito, 1967

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 : 24

150. Ixodes monospinosus Saito, 1967 .

Palearctic: 1) Japan (except the Ryukyu Islands) ( Yamaguti et al. 1971, Kolonin 2009).

Cho et al. (1999) allegedly collected a female of Ixodes monospinosus from a human in South Korea, but morphological support for this record was insufficient, according to Guglielmone & Robbins (2018), an opinion that remains unchanged, and South Korea is excluded from the range of Ixodes monospinosus .