Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories Author Guglielmone, Alberto A. 0000-0001-5430-2889 guglielmone.alberto@inta.gob.ar Author Nava, Santiago 0000-0001-7791-4239 nava.santiago@inta.gob.ar Author Robbins, Richard G. 0000-0003-2443-5271 robbinsrg@si.edu text Zootaxa 2023 2023-03-07 5251 1 1 274 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1 journal article 235222 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1 43227427-a867-4744-9e4c-2b2302524890 1175-5326 7704190 3326BF76-A2FB-4244-BA4C-D0AF81F55637 64. Rhipicephalus pumilio Schulze, 1935a . Oriental: 1) China (south); Palearctic: 1) China (north), 2) Kazakhstan , 3) Kyrgyzstan , 4) Mongolia , 5) Russia , 6) Tajikistan , 7) Turkmenistan , 8) Uzbekistan (Voltzit & Lvov 1986, Liao & Lai 1995 , Filippova 1997 , Walker et al. 2000 , Kolonin 2009 , Fedorova 2012 , Černý et al. 2019 , Perfilyeva et al. 2020 , Tsapko 2020 ). Filippova (1997) stated that Rhipicephalus pumilio was confused with Rhipicephalus schulzei in Zumpt (1939) , while Zahler et al. (1997) found molecular evidence suggesting that Rhipicephalus pumilio and Rhipicephalus rossicus are conspecific. The presence of Rhipicephalus pumilio in southern China (Oriental Zoogeographic Region) is based on Liao & Lai (1995) , who found this tick in Guangxi Province . This record is treated as valid by Chen et al. (2010) , Zhang, G. et al. (2019) and Zhang, Y.K. et al. (2019) but not by Zhao et al. (2021) .