Dermacentor, C.L.Koch, 1844

Genus Dermacentor View in CoL View at ENA

Previously, one species of Dermacentor , Dermacentor raskemensis Pomerantzev, 1946 , was reported to infest goats, sheep and Markhor ( Capra falconeri ) in the Hindu Kush, Suleiman, Karakoram and Himalaya ranges ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 ) ( McCarthy 1967; Dhanda et al. 1971; Apanaskevich 2013). However, two undetermined species— Dermacentor cf. marginatus and Dermacentor sp. —were morphologically and molecularly identified in recent studies ( Ahmad et al. 2023; Ali et al. 2024a) that require mitogenome analyses prior to being recognized as novel species. Dermacentor collections made during our study revealed the presence of two species, D. montanus , and D. raskemensis , with D. montanus here reported for the first time in Pakistan.