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 71. Haemaphysalis inermis Birula, 1895 . Palearctic: 1) Albania , 2) Armenia , 3) Austria , 4) Azerbaijan, 5) Bosnia and Herzegovina , 6) Bulgaria , 7) Croatia , 8) Czechia , 9) France , 10) Georgia, 11) Greece , 12) Hungary , 13) Iran , 14) Italy , 15) Kosovo , 16) Moldova , 17) Montenegro , 18) North Macedonia, 19) Portugal , 20) Romania , 21) Russia , 22) Serbia , 23) Slovakia , 24) Spain , 25) Turkey , 26) Ukraine ( Oswald 1939 , Feider 1965 , Papadopoulos et al. 1996 , Filippova 1997 , Morel 2003 , Cringoli et al. 2005 , Kolonin 2009 , Santos-Silva et al. 2011 , Bursali et al. 2012 , Krčmar 2012 , Sherifi et al. 2014, Estrada-Peña et al. 2017 , Hosseini-Chegeni et al. 2019 , Hornok et al. 2020a , Tsapko 2020 ). The presence of Haemaphysalis inermis in Austria is based on Kolonin (2009) and Estrada-Peña et al. (2017) . Haemaphysalis ambigua was described by Neumann (1906) and is considered to be a synonym of Haemaphysalis inermis ; however, specimens of Haemaphysalis ambigua from Japan were later recognized to be Haemaphysalis kitaokai , as discussed in Guglielmone et al. (2020) . Kolonin (2009) and Nowak-Chmura & Siuda (2012) did not recognize the presence of Haemaphysalis inermis in Poland , while Hillyard (1996) and Estrada-Peña et al. (2017) listed this tick as found there. We provisionally exclude Poland from the range of Haemaphysalis inermis . Several reports reference the presence of Haemaphysalis inermis in Taiwan (Oriental Region), but this tick is not thought to occur there by Robbins (2005) , whose opinion is supported here.