Ixodes pilosus Koch, 1844a

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 : 29

187. Ixodes pilosus Koch, 1844a .

Afrotropical: 1) Botswana, 2) Eswatini, 3) Mozambique, 4) South Africa, 5) Zimbabwe ( Norval et al. 1987, Santos Dias 1993a, Walker A.R. et al. 2003, Kolonin 2009).

For many years it has been accepted that Ixodes pilosus represents a species complex, but the situation remains unresolved ( Horak et al. 2018), as is the geographic distribution of ticks bearing this name. Guglielmone & Robbins (2018) accepted the opinion of Burridge (2011), who believed that bona fide Ixodes pilosus is restricted to Eswatini and South Africa, but Walker (1991) argued that this tick is also present in Zimbabwe, and Santos Dias (1993a) implied that Ixodes pilosus is found in Mozambique, while stating that most records are not based on bona fide Ixodes pilosus . For these reasons, the above range of Ixodes pilosus must be considered provisional.

Phan Trong (1977) listed Ixodes pilosus as occurring in Vietnam, but this tick is not found there ( Kolonin 2009). Adil et al. (2021) allegedly found Ixodes pilosus in Pakistan (east), but this record is treated here as a probable misidentification.