Ixodes kashmiricus Pomerantsev, 1948

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 kashmiricus Pomerantsev, 1948

Ixodes kaschmiricus Pomerantsev, 1948: 132; Filippova 1969: 675.

Ixodes persulcatus kaschmiricus Pomerantsev, 1948: 132; Filippova 1969: 675.

Recorded hosts.

Mammalia: Apodemus sylvaticus (wood mouse), Canis familiaris Linnaeus (dog), Ovis aries Linnaeus (sheep) ( Filippova 1977).

Recorded locations

(Fig. 8 ). Kyrgyzstan: the Tien Shan – northern and eastern slopes of the Terskey Ala-too range (gorges Ulken-Kokpak and Chon-Dzhargylchak) ( Filippova 1969).

Ecology and other information.

Ixodes kashmiricus is a tick species with a disjunctive relict range limited by the Tien Shan in Kyrgyzstan as well as India ( Filippova 1977) and Pakistan ( Numan et al. 2022). In Kyrgyzstan the tick was found mainly in the mid-altitude vertical zone of the mountains at the lower border of the forest at the altitude of 2000 and 2500 m a. s. l. Cases of parasitism on humans have been recorded ( Hoogstraal 1970).

Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes showed that I. kashmiricus belongs to the I. ricinus group ( Kovalev et al. 2018) and clusters with such members of the I. ricinus group as I. apronophorus and I. kazakstani ( Numan et al. 2022) .

The type specimens are stored at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and include the lectotype - female; [ India], Kashmir, Vardvan Maru River, northern tributary of Chinab River, 10 – 13. V. 1910, coll. S. P. Trubetskoi; AL I 533, as well as the paralectotype - male; AL 533 a. Ixodes kashmiricus (see: Filippova 1969: 677). Description – Filippova 1977: 292–296 (female, male, nymph, larva) ( Filippova 2008). Originally the tick was named I. persulcatus kaschmiricus (lapsus).

Figures

Figure 8. Map of Russia and neighboring countries showing the locations where Ixodes kashmiricus was reported.