AI'IBLYgglA PgiPOSUII Donitz, 1909. 



(Figures 80 to S3) 



THE HIGHLAI© BOIJT TICK 



L N o d' EQUATORIA PROVINCE RECORD 



1 Yei domestic cow Jan 



This specimen, identified by Dr. G. Theiler, is the only one 

 of this species from the Sudan. It represents an apparently rare 

 intrusion into the western half of Equatoria Province from the 

 Belgian Conco. Ecologically, the Yei area, except for a few hill 

 masses, does not seem suitable for the stirvival of this mountain- 

 inhabiting species though other localities in the eastern high- 

 lands of Equatoria Province might well meet its requirements. 

 See A. superbum , REI-IARKS below. 



DISTRIBUTION 



A. pomposum is a highland tick of eastern Central Africa, 

 adjacent parts of East Africa, and northern parts of southern 

 Africa. See also REl-IARICS and IDENTIFICATION below. 



CSimiAL AFRICA ; BELGIAN CQIGO and RUAITOA-URUNDI (Nuttall 

 and War burton 1916. Seydel 1925. Robinson 1926. Schwetz 1927A. 

 Bequaert 1931. Neitz 19A7. Schoenaers 19$1A. Theiler and Ro- 

 binson 1954-. Note ; Santos Dias 1953E refers most of these 

 Congo reports to his A. superbum sp. nov. However, correspondence 

 with curators reveals that he had not examined the specimens on 

 which these references were based). 



EAST AFRICA ; SUDAN (Hoogstraal 195AB). 



KEIWA (See Note u^der IDEI'ITIFICATION below). UGANDA (Hoogstraal 

 195AC). TANGAiY/TkF (Donitz 1909). 



SOUTHERIJ AFRICA ; AInIGOLA (Leitao 19^2. Robinson 1926. Santos 

 Dias 1950C. Bacelar 1950. Soxisa Dias 1950, this report referred 



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