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 128. Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae Hoogstraal, 1966b . Palearctic: 1) China (north), 2) Georgia, 3) Kyrgyzstan , 4) Mongolia , 5) Russia , 6) Tajikistan , 7) Turkey (Hoogstraal 1966 b, Hoogstraal & Kim 1985 , Voltzit & L’vov 1986, Kiefer et al. 2010 , Bursali et al. 2012 , Fedorova 2017 , Černý, J. et al. 2019, Tsapko 2020 ). Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae has been widely confused with Haemaphysalis warburtoni , as discussed in Hoogstraal (1966b). Kolonin (2009) treated Haemaphysalis danieli as a synonym of Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae , an opinion not shared here. Chen et al. (2011), Zhang, G. et al. (2019) and Zhang, Y.K. et al. (2019) did not list Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae as occurring in China , contrary to Sun et al. (2011) and Zhao et al. (2021) , who included it within that country, the last-named authors citing many records from northern China , which is tentatively included within the range of this tick. The presence of Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae in Turkey is provisional and based on Bursali et al. (2012) , who listed Haemaphysalis aksarensis , a name treated as a synonym of Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae in Guglielmone et al. (2014), as a Turkish species.