Ixodes kuntzi Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1965a

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 : 21

123. Ixodes kuntzi Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1965a .

Oriental: 1) China (south), 2) Nepal (south and central), 3) Taiwan; Palearctic: 1) Nepal (north and central) ( Clifford et al. 1975 a, Robbins 2005, Chen et al. 2010, Pun et al. 2018).

Camicas et al. (1998) treated Ixodes kuntzi as a tick found only in the Oriental Region, but some records of this tick from Nepal in Clifford et al. (1975a) are from the Palearctic Zoogeographic Region. Because Clifford et al. (1975a) considered their records tentatively valid, Guglielmone et al. (2014) regarded the presence of Ixodes kuntzi in Nepal as provisional, a view also accepted here.