Rhipicephalus rossicus Yakimov & Kol-Yakimova, 1911

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 : 127-128

68. Rhipicephalus rossicus Yakimov & Kol-Yakimova, 1911 .

Palearctic: 1) Armenia, 2) Azerbaijan, 3) Bulgaria, 4) China (north), 5) Egypt, 6) Georgia, 7) Iran, 8) Israel, 9) Kazakhstan, 10) Moldova, 11) Romania, 12) Russia, 13) Turkey, 14) Turkmenistan, 15) Ukraine, 16) Uzbekistan ( Feldman-Muhsam 1960 a, Feider 1965, Filippova 1997, Walker et al. 2000, Kolonin 2009, Chen et al. 2010, Nowak-Chmura & Siuda 2012, Akimov & Nebogatkin 2013, Mihalca et al. 2015, Hovhannisyan & Dilbaryan 2016, Estrada-Peña et al. 2017, Nader et al. 2018, HosseiniChegeni et al. 2019, Perfilyeva et al. 2020, Tsapko 2020, Hekimoglu et al. 2021, Zhao et al. 2021).

Zahler et al. (1997) found molecular evidence suggesting that Rhipicephalus pumilio and Rhipicephalus rossicus are conspecific.

Okely et al. (2022) treated Rhipicephalus rossicus as a non-endemic species in Egypt, but this country is provisionally included within its range here.

Mihalca et al. (2015) included Poland and Tajikistan within the range of Rhipicephalus rossicus , but NowakChmura & Siuda (2012) treated this tick as an invasive species that has been unable to establish itself in Poland, which is provisionally excluded from the range of Rhipicephalus rossicus , while the presence of this species in Tajikistan is treated here as unconfirmed. Zhang et al. (2021, supporting information) listed Rhipicephalus rossicus as occurring in Hainan, southern China (Oriental Zoogeographic Region), but its presence there also requires confirmation.