41. Rhipicephalus kohlsi (Hoogstraal & Kaiser, 1960). Afrotropical: 1) Saudi Arabia (south), 2) Yemen; Palearctic: 1) Iraq, 2) Iran, 3) Israel, 4) Jordan, 5) Palestine, 6) Syria, 7) Turkey (K ö hler et al. 1967, Feldman-Muhsam & Shechter 1970, Hoogstraal et al. 1981, Pegram et al. 1982 b, Saliba et al. 1990, Wassef et al. 1997, Keysari et al. 2011, Bursali et al. 2012, Hasson 2012, Hosseini-Chegeni et al. 2019, Abdally et al. 2020, Perveen et al. 2021). Many records of Rhipicephalus kohlsi have been published under the name Boophilus kohlsi. Camicas et al. (1998) listed Rhipicephalus kohlsi (under the genus Boophilus) as a Palearctic tick, but there are also records from the Afrotropical Zoogeographic Region, although published after 1998. Rasulov (2007) claimed to have found Rhipicephalus kohlsi in Uzbekistan, but its presence in that country requires confirmation. Burger et al. (2014) collected an alleged specimen of Rhipicephalus kohlsi in Oman that was characterized molecularly but not morphologically. Orkun & Vatansever (2021) found significant molecular differences between Rhipicephalus kohlsi from Turkey and the alleged specimen from Oman, which we have provisionally excluded from the range of Rhipicephalus kohlsi.

Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, pp. 1-274 in Zootaxa 5251 (1) on page 121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7704190