Tick Species of Central Asia

Countries (Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) indicated from which each tick has been reported.
Compiled by Richard G. Robbins, Ph.D., DPMIAC/AFPMB, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307-5001 and James E. Keirans, Ph.D., Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460-8056.

Argas abdussalami Hoogstraal & McCarthy, 1965 [Afghanistan]
Argas beklemischevi Pospelova-Shtrom, Vasil'yeva & Semashko, 1963 [Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan]
Argas boueti Roubaud & Colas-Belcour, 1933 [Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan]
Argas confusus Hoogstraal, 1955 [Afghanistan]
Argas hermanni Audouin, 1827 [Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan]
Argas latus Filippova, 1961 [Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan]
Argas persicus (Oken, 1818) [Central Asia]
Argas reflexus (Fabricius, 1794) [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan]
Argas vespertilionis (Latreille, 1802) [Central Asia]
Argas vulgaris Filippova, 1961 [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan]

Ornithodoros alactagalis Issakjan, 1936 [Turkmenistan]
Ornithodoros asperus Warburton, 1918 [Kazakhstan]
Ornithodoros canestrinii (Birula, 1895) [Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan]
Ornithodoros capensis Neumann, 1901 [Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan]
Ornithodoros cholodkovskyi Pavlovsky, 1930 [Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan]
Ornithodoros coniceps Canestrini, 1890 [Central Asia]
Ornithodoros lahorensis Neumann, 1908 [Central Asia]
Ornithodoros maritimus Vermeil & Marguet, 1967 [Turkmenistan]
Ornithodoros tartakovskyi Olenev, 1931 [Central Asia]
Ornithodoros tholozani (Laboulbene & Megnin, 1882) [Central Asia]

Acari: Ixodida: IXODIDAE:

Anomalohimalaya lama Hoogstraal, Kaiser & Mitchell, 1970 [Tajikistan]
Anomalohimalaya lotozkyi Filippova & Panova, 1978 [Tajikistan]

Aponomma gervaisi (Lucas, 1847) [Afghanistan]

Boophilus annulatus (Say, 1821) [Central Asia]
Boophilus microplus (Canestrini, 1887) [Afghanistan]

Dermacentor marginatus (Sulzer, 1776) [Central Asia]
Dermacentor montanus Filippova & Panova, 1974 [Tajikistan]
Dermacentor niveus Neumann, 1897 [Central Asia]
Dermacentor pavlovskyi Olenev, 1927 [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan]
Dermacentor raskemensis Serdyukova in Pomerantsev, 1946 [Afghanistan, Kazakhstan]
Dermacentor reticulatus (Fabricius, 1794) [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan]
Dermacentor silvarum Olenev, 1931 [Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan]

Haemaphysalis concinna Koch, 1844 [Kazakhstan]
Haemaphysalis cornupunctata Hoogstraal & Varma, 1962 [Afghanistan]
Haemaphysalis danieli Cerny & Hoogstraal, 1977 [Afghanistan]
Haemaphysalis erinacei turanica Pospelova-Shtrom, 1940 [Central Asia]
Haemaphysalis kashmirensis Hoogstraal & Varma, 1962 [Afghanistan]

Haemaphysalis pavlovskyi Pospelova-Shtrom, 1935 [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan]
Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae Hoogstraal, 1966 [Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan]
Haemaphysalis sulcata Canestrini & Fanzago, 1878 [Central Asia]

Hyalomma aegyptium (Linnaeus, 1758) [Central Asia]
Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum Koch, 1844 [Central Asia]
Hyalomma anatolicum excavatum Koch, 1844 [Central Asia]
Hyalomma asiaticum Schulze & Schlottke, 1929 [Central Asia]
Hyalomma detritum Schulze, 1919 [Central Asia]
Hyalomma dromedarii Koch, 1844 [Central Asia]
Hyalomma hussaini Sharif, 1928 [Afghanistan]
Hyalomma kumari Sharif, 1928 [Afghanistan, Tajikistan]
Hyalomma marginatum turanicum Pomerantzev, 1946 [Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan]
Hyalomma schulzei Olenev, 1931 [Afghanistan, Turkmenistan]

Ixodes apronophorus Schulze, 1924 [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan]
Ixodes arboricola Schulze & Schlottke, 1930 [Afghanistan]
Ixodes berlesei Birula, 1895 [Tajikistan, Uzbekistan]
Ixodes crenulatus Koch, 1844 [Central Asia]
Ixodes eldaricus Djaparidze, 1950 [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan]
Ixodes himalayensis Dhanda & Kulkarni, 1969 [Afghanistan]
Ixodes kashmiricus Pomerantzev, 1948 [Kyrgyzstan]
Ixodes kazakstani Olenev & Sorokoumov, 1934 [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan]
Ixodes laguri Olenev, 1931 [Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan]
Ixodes lividus Koch, 1844 [Kazakhstan]
Ixodes occultus Pomerantsev, 1946 [Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan]
Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, 1930 [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan]
Ixodes redikorzevi Olenev, 1927 [Central Asia]
Ixodes semenovi Olenev, 1929 [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan]
Ixodes simplex Neumann, 1906 [Afghanistan]
Ixodes stromi Filippova, 1957 [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan]
Ixodes subterraneus Filippova, 1961 [Turkmenistan]
Ixodes vespertilionis Koch, 1844 [Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan]

Rhipicephalus bursa Canestrini & Fanzago, 1877 [Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan]
Rhipicephalus leporis Pomerantsev, 1948 [Central Asia]
Rhipicephalus pumilio Schulze, 1935 [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan]
Rhipicephalus rossicus Yakimov & Kol'-Yakimova, 1911 [Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan]
Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille, 1806) [Central Asia]
Rhipicephalus schulzei Olenev, 1929 [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan]
Rhipicephalus turanicus Pomerantsev, 1936 [Central Asia]