ARGAS (OGADEHUS ) HIUMPTI Nevunann, 1907(B). 



(Figures 19,20,31 and 32} 



ERUMPT'S ARGAS 



(f EQUATORIA PROVINCE RBCCKDS 



12 Imurok Heterohyrax bmcei hoogsl^raeill Feb 



1 Iraurok Heterohyraa: brucei hoogstraali Feb 



(in den^ 



1 Imatong Heterohyrax brucei hoogstraali Feb 



1 Niraule Acomys hystrella Apr 



DISTRIBUTION IN THE SUDAN 



Blue Nile ; Gebelein (El Jebelein) (King 1911,1915), '"Blue 

 Nile cTTsIrlcts" (Archibald 1923). 



Kassala ; Erkowit (King 1926). 



Kordofan ; Nuba Mountains (Ruttledge 1930). 



Stidan Government collections contain King's Gebelein collections, 

 nimerous laboratory reared progeny, and Ruttledge 's specimens from 

 Delami in the Nuba Mountains. 



Note the Egyptian records below, most of which are from the 

 Southeastern Desert near the Sudan frontier in that part of Egypt 

 administered by the Sudan Government, 



DISTRIBUTION 



Argas brtimpti is a tick of drier East African areas that has 

 spread Into South and Southwest Africa, into that part of south- 

 eastern Egypt that is included in the Ethiopian Faunal Region, and 

 some distance into the Western Desert of Egypt (Palearctic Faunal 

 Region). The distribution has been mapped by Hoogstraal and Kaiser 

 (1956). 



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