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 122. Ixodes kopsteini ( Oudemans, 1926 ) . Afrotropical: 1) Democratic Republic of the Congo , 2) Uganda ; Australasian: 1) Australia , 2) Indonesia (east of Wallace’s Line), 3) Papua New Guinea ; Oriental: 1) Cambodia , Indonesia (west of Wallace’s Line), 2) Malaysia , 3) Philippines , 4) Thailand ( Roberts 1970 , Tanskul et al. 1983 , Matthysse & Colbo 1987 , Robbins et al. 2004 , Kolonin 2009 , Petney et al. 2019 ). A few records of Ixodes kopsteini were published under the name Ixodes paradoxus by Kohls & Clifford (1961) , but this name was determined to be a synonym of Ixodes kopsteini in Kohls & Clifford (1968) .