AMBLYOMMA RHraOCEROTIS (de Geer, 1778) (= A. PETERSI Karsch, 1878) 



(Figures 8^ to 87) 

 THE RHINOCEROS AMBLYOM^IA 



L N 2 cf EQUATOR lA PROVINCE RECCPDS 



U Torit on grass Dec (SGC ) 



2 2 Kajo Kaji on grass _ (BMNH) 



The Sudan Government collection specimens were collected by 

 H. H. King. British Museum (Natural History) specimens were taken 

 by Captain C. M. Stigand. 



DISTRIBUTION IN THE SUDAN 

 Upper Nile ; Bor (King 1926). 



DISTRIBUTION 



A. rhinocerotis occiirs in central, eastern, axid southeastern 

 Africa apparently wherever the rhinoceros is found. 



/ "WEST AFRI CA; LIBERIA; Bequaert (1930A) states that Neumann«s 

 (1901,1911) Liberian records of this species, repeated by Bedford and 

 Hewitt (1925) and by Bedford (1932B) are in error. FRENCH EQUATCBIAL 

 AFRICA; Neumann (1899) listed A. aureum (a synonym of A. rhinocero - 

 tis ) from "Ngoiirou Plains, Zanzibar"'. It is probable that this local- 

 ity is actually N'Gourou, Ubangi-Shari, French Equatorial Africa_.7 



CENTRAL AFRICA ; BELGIAN CONGO (Schwetz 1927A. River Misisi, 

 Schwetz 192X, p. 92, is in Uganda. Tonelli-Rondelli 1930A. 

 Bequaert 1931). 



NOTE; According to Theiler (correspondence), the record for 

 Ruanda-Urundi by Santos Dias (195AD) is in error. 



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