English abstract
The soft ticks of the genus Reticulinasus Schulze, 1941 (family Argasidae Koch, 1844) are ectoparasites of the fruit bats of
the Old World (Pteropodidae). Reticulinasus salahi (Hoogstraal, 1953) is the only representative of this genus that occurs
in the western part of the Palaearctic. This unusual distribution refects the distributon range of its primary host, Rousettus
aegyptiacus (Geofroy, 1810). In this contribution, we present a revised review of records of this tick that were made in two
periods, 1951–1966 (records from Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Spain) and 2005–2019 (Cyprus, Iran, Oman), and additionally, we
present notes, re-determinations, new records, and summary of hosts of this tick. Besides the primary host, the revised list
of hosts comprises two bats (Taphozous perforatus Geofroy, 1818, Otonycteris hemprichii Peters, 1859) and the human
(Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758). We also tried to identify pathogens in specimens of this tick collected from R. aegyptiacus
in Oman. The DNA of the Mouse herpesvirus strain 68 (MHV-68), of two bacteria, Borellia burgdorferii sensu lato, and
Ehrlichia sp. almost identical (98%) with Candidatus Ehrlichia shimanensis was detected in several larvae specimens.
