Ixodes semenovi Olenev, 1929

Fedorov, Denis & Hornok, Sándor, 2024, Checklist of hosts, illustrated geographical range, and ecology of tick species from the genus Ixodes (Acari, Ixodidae) in Russia and other post-Soviet countries, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 255-343 : 255-343

Ixodes semenovi Olenev, 1929

Ixodes semenovi Olenev, 1929: 489 .

Recorded hosts.

Aves: Prunella collaris (alpine accentor), Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (Linnaeus) (red-billed chough) ( Filippova 1977).

Recorded locations

(Fig. 32 ). Kazakhstan: Tian Shan – the northern slope of the Kyrgyz Ala-Too Range, the source of the river Merke (Jambyl Region) ( Olenev 1929 b). Kyrgyzstan: Terskey Ala-too Range ( Grebenyuk 1961, 1966).

Ecology and other information.

Ixodes semenovi is a very rare species in the post-Soviet territories known only from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, from the Tian Shan, where it inhabits rocks at an altitude of 2000 m a. s. l. ( Filippova 1977). The type specimen of I. semenovi is deposited at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences: the holotype - female; Mi [ddle] Asia, Aleksandrovskii Mt. Range [Kirgizskii Ala Tau], source of Merke River, Aral-Tyube, from Accentor collaris , 4. VII. 1929, coll. I. A. Portenko; AL I 549. Description – Filippova 1977: 219–223 (female, male, nymph; larva unknown) ( Filippova 2008).

Figures

Figure 32. Map of Russia and neighboring countries showing the locations where Ixodes semenovi was reported.