Hyalomma aegyptium ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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 : 103

1. Hyalomma aegyptium ( Linnaeus, 1758) .

Palearctic: 1) Afghanistan, 2) Albania, 3) Algeria, 4) Armenia, 5) Azerbaijan, 6) Bulgaria, 7) Croatia, 8) Georgia, 9) Greece, 10) Iran, 11) Iraq, 12) Israel, 13) Italy, 14) Jordan, 15) Kazakhstan, 16) Kyrgyzstan, 17) Lebanon, 18) Morocco, 19) North Macedonia, 20) Pakistan (west), 21) Palestine, 22) Romania, 23) Russia, 24) Serbia, 25) Syria, 26) Tajikistan, 27) Tunisia, 28) Turkey, 29) Turkmenistan, 30) Ukraine, 31) Uzbekistan ( Kaiser & Hoogstraal 1963, 1964, Feider 1965, K ö hler et al. 1967, Saliba et al. 1990, Apanaskevich 2003 a, Morel 2003, Cringoli et al. 2005, Široký et al. 2006, Apanaskevich & Filippova 2007, Bursali et al. 2012, Fedorova 2012, Ereqat et al. 2016, Nader et al. 2018, Hosseini-Chegeni et al. 2019, Roth et al. 2019).

Hyalomma aegyptium has frequently been confused with other species of Hyalomma and, sometimes, with non- Hyalomma ticks ( Feldman-Muhsam 1948, Keirans 1985b).

Apanaskevich (2003a) included Kazakhstan within the geographic distribution of Hyalomma aegyptium , an opinion accepted here, but the presence of this species in Kazakhstan is not recognized by Perfilyeva et al. (2020). The presence of Hyalomma aegyptium in Croatia is based on Morel (2003).

Arthur (1963) and Camicas et al. (1998) considered Hyalomma aegyptium to also be present in the Afrotropical and Oriental Zoogeographic Regions, respectively, but we regard this tick as exclusively Palearctic. Nevertheless, Hyalomma aegyptium has been found in localities outside its natural range, having been exported together with its tortoise host ( Nowak-Chmura & Siuda 2012, Loporto et al. 2018, Barradas et al. 2021, among others). Hoogstraal (1956a) stated that this species was described from specimens collected in Egypt, but Hyalomma aegyptium was probably extinct by the time that his study on African Ixodoidea was published.