156. Haemaphysalis sulcata Canestrini & Fanzago, 1878. Afrotropical: 1) Saudi Arabia (south), 2) Yemen; Oriental: 1) India, 2) Pakistan (east); Palearctic:1) Afghanistan, 2) Albania, 3) Algeria, 4) Armenia, 5) Azerbaijan, 6) Bosnia and Herzegovina, 7) Bulgaria, 8) China (north), 9) Croatia, 10) Cyprus, 11) Egypt, 12) France, 13) Georgia, 14) Greece, 15) Iran, 16) Iraq, 17) Israel, 18) Italy, 19) Jordan, 20) Kazakhstan, 21) Kuwait, 22) Kyrgyzstan, 23) Lebanon, 24) Libya, 25) Moldova, 26) Montenegro, 27) Morocco, 28) Palestine, 29) Romania, 30) Russia, 31) Saudi Arabia (north), 32) Serbia, 33) Spain, 34) Switzerland, 35) Syria, 36) Tajikistan, 37) Tunisia, 38) Turkey, 39) Turkmenistan, 40) Ukraine, 41) Uzbekistan (Hoogstraal & Kaiser 1958 a, Feider 1965, K ö hler et al. 1967, Hoogstraal 1973 a, Papadopoulos et al. 1996, Filippova 1997, Hoogstraal et al. 1981, Hoogstraal & Kim 1985, Saliba et al. 1990, Yeruham et al. 1996, Wassef et al. 1997, Morel 2003, Cringoli et al. 2005, Al-Khalifa et al. 2006, Kolonin 2009, Chen et al. 2010, Geevarghese & Mishra 2011, Bursali et al. 2012, Krčmar 2012, Shubber et al. 2014, Tsatsaris et al. 2016, Fedorova 2012, Karim et al. 2017, Hosseini-Chegeni et al. 2019, Abdally et al. 2020, Perfilyeva et al. 2020, Tsapko 2020, Zhao et al. 2021). Guglielmone et al. (2020) stated that Haemaphysalis sulcata has not been properly defined morphologically because redescriptions of this tick by several authors show obvious differences, and more than one species is probably included under this name. Many records of Haemaphysalis sulcata have been published under such names as Haemaphysalis cholodkovskyi, Haemaphysalis cinnabarina cretica, Haemaphysalis cretica, Haemaphysalis nicollei, Haemaphysalis punctata cretica and Haemaphysalis sewelli, among others (Guglielmone & Nava 2014). Morel (2003) listed numerous instances where Haemaphysalis sulcata had been confused with Haemaphysalis punctata. The geographic distribution of Haemaphysalis sulcata should therefore be considered tentative. Camicas et al. (1998) treated Haemaphysalis sulcata as an Oriental and Palearctic species, but Afrotropical records from southern Saudi Arabia and Yemen are regarded here as provisionally valid.

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 100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7704190