13. Hyalomma impeltatum Schulze & Schlottke, 1929a. Afrotropical: 1) Benin, 2) Burkina Faso, 3) Cameroon, 4) Chad (south), 5) Djibouti, 6) Erithrea, 7) Ethiopia, 8) Ivory Coast, 9) Kenya, 10) Mali (south), 11) Mauritania (south), 12) Niger (south), 13) Nigeria, 14) Oman, 15) Saudi Arabia (south), 16) Senegal, 17) Somalia, 18) Sudan, 19) Tanzania, 20) United Arab Emirates, 21) Yemen; Palearctic: 1) Afghanistan, 2) Algeria, 3) Egypt, 4) Iran, 5) Iraq, 6) Israel, 7) Jordan, 8) Kuwait, 9) Libya, 10) Mali (north), 11) Mauritania (north), 12) Morocco, 13) Niger (north), 14) Pakistan (west), 15) Palestine, 16) Qatar, 17) Saudi Arabia (north), 18) Syria, 19) Tunisia, 20) Turkey, 21) Western Sahara (Hoogstraal & Kaiser 1958b, Aeschlimann 1967, K ö hler et al. 1967, Yeoman & Walker 1967, Hoogstraal 1980, Hoogstraal et al. 1981, Saliba et al. 1990, Wassef et al. 1997, Morel 2003, Sylla et al. 2008, Apanaskevich & Horak 2009, Bursali et al. 2012, Kleinerman et al. 2013, Shubber et al. 2014, Ereqat et al. 2016, Estrada-Peña et al. 2017, Alanazi et al. 2019, Springer et al. 2021, Okely et al. 2021, Olivieri et al. 2021, Ouedraogo et al. 2021 a, b, Perveen et al. 2021, Schulz et al. 2021) Several records of Hyalomma impeltatum from Djibouti, Eritrea and Somalia were published by Kaiser & Hoogstraal (1968) under the name Hyalomma erythraeum, a tick described by Tonelli Rondelli (1932). However, Apanaskevich & Horak (2009) found that Hyalomma erythraeum is, in fact, a synonym of Hyalomma impeltatum, and reinstated the name Hyalomma somalicum, a tick described by Tonelli Rondelli (1935) for the specimens treated as Hyalomma erythraeum by Kaiser & Hoogstraal (1968). Uilenberg et al. (2013) stated that specimens of Hyalomma impeltatum found in the Central African Republic were introduced with foreign livestock, concluding that this tick may not be established there, as may also be the case in other African countries, such as Gabon. Guglielmone & Robbins (2018) listed Hyalomma impeltatum as being found in South Sudan, but its presence there has not been confirmed. Indian and Pakistani (east) records of this tick in Paikade & Chavan (2019) and Adil et al. (2021), respectively, need confirmation. Consequently, the Central African Republic, Gabon, South Sudan, India and Pakistan are not included within the range of Hyalomma impeltatum.

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