Ixodes pavlovskyi Pomerantzev, 1946

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 : 28

181. Ixodes pavlovskyi Pomerantzev, 1946 .

Palearctic: 1) China (north), 2) Japan (except the Ryukyu Islands), 3) Kazakhstan, 4) Kyrgyzstan, 5) Russia ( Takada et al. 1998, Kolonin 2009, Fedorova 2012, Guo et al. 2016, Perfilyeva et al. 2020, Tsapko 2020).

Takada et al. (1998) recorded Ixodes pavlovskyi from the Palearctic portion of China, but its presence there was not recognized by Kolonin (2009) and Chen et al. (2010). Thereafter, Guo et al. (2016) added specimens of Ixodes pavlovskyi from Palearctic localities in China, and its occurrence there is recognized in Zhang, G. et al. (2019), Zhang, Y.K. et al. (2019), Zhao et al. (2021) and here.

Filippova & Panova (1998) divided Russian populations of this tick into two subspecies ( Ixodes pavlovskyi pavlovskyi and Ixodes pavlovskyi occidentalis Filippova & Panova, 1998 ) based on morphological differences between eastern and western specimens, which may indicate the presence of species rather than subspecies under the name Ixodes pavlovskyi .