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 reflects the distributon range of its primary host, Rousettus aegyptiacus (Geoffroy, 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 Geoffroy, 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.

Department of Microbiology and Virology Faculty of Natural Sciences Comenius University Ilkovičova 6 842 15 Bratislava Slovak Republic

Department of Zoology Faculty of Science Charles University Viničná 7 128 43 Praha 2 Czech Republic

Department of Zoology Institute of Biology and Ecology Faculty of Science P J Šafárik University Šrobárova 2 041 80 Košice Slovak Republic

Department of Zoology National Museum Václavské nám 68 115 79 Praha 1 Czech Republic

Institute of Virology Biomedical Research Center Slovak Academy of Sciences Dúbravská cesta 9 845 05 Bratislava Slovak Republic

South Moravian Museum in Znojmo Přemyslovců 129 8 669 02 Znojmo Czech Republic

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