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TABLE OF COrJTBITS 1 



FiAPS AI'JD ILLU3TRATI0HS 8 



Use of Name Sudan... 12 



Abbreviations 12 



FOREWORD, BY DR. C. B. PHILIP 13 



I lOTRODUCTION 15 



Object and scope of this and related projects 15 



History of this project 16 



II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 19 



III LISTS OF TICKS REPORTED FRQ-1 THE SUDM 26 



Species and subspecies records by Province 26 



Family Argasidae 26 



Family Ixodidae 27 



Species attributed in error to the Sudan 32 



Previously reported names used in error, changed, 



or sjTionyraized 34- 



Names herein changed, s;>Tionymized, or proposed 36 



Keys to families and genera of adults 39 



Keys to developmental stages 42 



IV SPECIES RECORDS 43 



Manner of data presentation 43 



Equatoria Province records 43 



Distribution in the Sudan 44 



Distribution 45 



Hosts 45 



Biology 46 



Disease relations 46 



Remarlcs 46 



Identification 46 



Family Argasidae 48 



Introduction 48 



Argas 52 



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