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 123. Ixodes kuntzi Hoogstraal & Kohls, 1965a . Oriental: 1) China (south), 2) Nepal (south and central), 3) Taiwan ; Palearctic: 1) Nepal (north and central) ( Clifford et al. 1975 a , Robbins 2005, Chen et al. 2010 , Pun et al. 2018 ). Camicas et al. (1998) treated Ixodes kuntzi as a tick found only in the Oriental Region, but some records of this tick from Nepal in Clifford et al. (1975a) are from the Palearctic Zoogeographic Region. Because Clifford et al. (1975a) considered their records tentatively valid, Guglielmone et al. (2014) regarded the presence of Ixodes kuntzi in Nepal as provisional, a view also accepted here.