Haemaphysalis kutchensis Hoogstraal & Trapido, 1963b

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84. Haemaphysalis kutchensis Hoogstraal & Trapido, 1963b .

Oriental: 1) India, 2) Pakistan (east); Palearctic: 1) Tajikistan ( Filippova & Mukhammadkulov 1981, Hoogstraal & Wassef 1985 a, Geevarghese & Mishra 2011).

Camicas et al. (1998) listed Haemaphysalis kutchensis as an Oriental species, and most records of established populations are Oriental. However, Filippova & Mukhammadkulov (1981) found this tick on an owl in Tajikistan, a collection that may have come from a local tick population or that may have been introduced by a migrating bird. If migrations were involved, then the route may have been intra-Palearctic, and we therefore provisionally treat Haemaphysalis kutchensis as a Palearctic species, but its permanent presence in Tajikistan is only tentatively accepted.

Another record of Haemaphysalis kutchensis outside the Oriental Region is in Hoogstraal & Wassef (1985a), based on specimens collected in Oman from a warbler that is not known to breed in the Afrotropical Region: Oman is therefore not included within the range of this tick.