Ixodid ticks of Barun Glacier region (the Nepal Himalaya).

During the 3rd Czechoslovak mountaineering expedition to the Himalaya in the spring 1973 ticks of the family Ixodidae were collected from small mammals and additionally from pastured sheep, and humans. The tick material represented the following species: Ixodes (P.) ovatus Neumann, 1899, Ixodes (I.) acutitarsus (Karsch, 1880) and Haemaphysalis (A.) aponommoides Warburton, 1921. Ecological and zoogeographical characteristics of the ticks found are given and their potential medical importance is discussed.