Kordofan ; Umm Bererabeita (SGCJ. 



^Northern and Khartoum ; Specimens from cattle at the Wadi 

 Haifa Qiiarantine station, from Ethiopian cattle at Khartoum, and 

 from '"A.O.F,"' native horses ^French West (?Equatorial ) Africa_7 

 (at Khartoum) are also present in Sxidan Government collections. 7 



See BIOIXDGY below for further remarks on distribution in the 

 Sudan. 



DISTRIBUTION 



A. lepidum is an East African herbivore parasite and is not 

 known to occxir elsewhere. It becomes iincommon in Tanganyika but 

 is more common locally northwards to the semidesert belt of the 

 Sudan. 



EAST AFRICA ; "•'EAST AFRICA'" (Donitz 1909). 



SUDAI^ (As A. hebraeum variegatum ; King 1911. King 1926. 

 Robinson 1926. "Hoogstraal 1952A,1954B). 



ETHIOPIA (Stella 19^0). ERITREA (Franchini 1929D. Tonelli- 

 Rondelli 1932C. Niro 1935. Stella 19^0). ITALIAN SCMALIIAND 

 (Paoli 1916. Tonelli-Rondelli 1926A. Franchini 1926A,1927, 

 1929c ,E. Niro 1935. Stella 193aA,19AO. See also adult host 

 records below). Note ; Nxomerous reports of A. hebraetm from 

 former Italian East African possessions probably refer in part 

 to A. lepidim axid in part to A. gemma . 



KENYA (Robinson 1926. Lewis 1931C,1939A. Dick and Lewis 

 19A7). UGANDA (Mettam 1932. Lewis 1939A. Wilson 19^aA,1950C, 

 1953). TANGANYIKA (Evans 1935. Cornell 1936. Lewis 1939A. 

 J. B. Walkerj small numbers; unpublished; see HOSTS below), 



OUTLYING ISLANDS ; ZANZIBAR (Donitz 1909. Robinson 1926). 



IMPCRTED SPECI1#:NS ; Cairo, EGYPT (Donitz 1909). A. lepidum 

 still arrives almost daily at the Cairo slaughterhouse on Sudan 

 cattle but has not established itself in Egypt (llason 1915, 

 Hoogstraal 1952A). Almost every specimen is a male. Nvtmerous 



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