Kordofan: Talodi (SVS). Cattle from Kordofan at the Wadi 

 Haifa Quarantine (SGC). 



/ "Khartoum ; Abyssinian cattle at Khartoum (probably at the 

 Quarantine Station) (SGC). Balfour (1906) reported specimens on 

 trypanosome^infected cattle arriving from the south.7 



It vfill be noted that 12°N. is about the northern limit of 

 this species. Rare isolated populations may exist slightly 

 further north in the Sudan. 



DISTRIBUTION 



A. variegatum is distributed generally throughout the Ethiopian 

 Faunal Region except in northern Sudan, most of Southwest Africa, 

 much of Mozambique, and the entire Union of South Africa. The range 

 includes moiontainous Southwest Arabia and the tropical bont tick 

 has become established in the Madagascan archipelago. It has also 

 established itself from imported specimens in the West Indies and 

 in the Cape Verde Islands. A record from '^lUatemala (Neumann 1899) 

 has not been confirmed in later literature. 



"AFRICA" (Fabricius 1794) 



NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ; CAPE VESDE ISLANDS (Tendeiro 195AX). 



WEST APRICA ; NIGffilA (Neumann 1899. Ziemann 1905. Simpson 

 1912A,B. Johnston 1916. Connal and Coghill 1917. Robinson 1926. 

 Pearse 1929. Beaton 1939. Mettam 1947, 19/!^8, 1951. Unsworth 1949, 

 1952. Gambles 1951). FREICH WEST AFRICA (As A. venustum : Koch 

 1844. As Ixodes elegans ; Guerin-Meneville 1^3. Neiimann 1899, 

 1911. Joyeux 1915 . Robinson 1926. Andre and Lan^ 1931. Brumpt 

 1934. Lloverol, Philippe, and Adjovi 1942. Girard and Rousselot 

 1945. Rousselot 1951,19538. Villiers 1955). 



TOGO (Ziemann 1905). SIERRA LEONE (Neumann 1899. Simpson 

 1913. Yorke and Blacklock 1915. Entomological Report 1916. Rol- 

 binson 1926). GAMBIA (Sinpson 1911. Robinson 1926). GOLD COAST 

 (Simpson 1914. Macfie 1915. Beal 1920. Robinson 1926. Stewart 



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