HAHvlAPHYSALIS BEftUAERTI Hoogstraal, 1956(A). 

 (Figures 132 to 135) 

 THE EAST AFRICAN HYRAX TICK 



L N 9 d- EftUATORIA PROVINCE RECORDS 



13 8 Iraurok Heterohyrax brucei hoogstraali Feb (2) 

 7 Lui Procavia hab'essinic'a'slatini May 



These records of H. beqiiaerti , from Torit District on the 

 east bank of the Nile and from the far southwestern corner of the 

 Sudan, are the only ones from this country. 



DISTRIBUTION 



H. bequaerti of Kenya and the Sudan is the most northern rep- 

 resentative of three African hyrax- parasitizing ticks. The other 

 two are H. orientalis Nuttall and War burton, 1915 (= H. zambeziae 

 Santos Dias, 1954^ of Nyasaland and Mozambique, and rfT cooleyi 

 Bedford, 1929, of the Union of South Africa. For fvirt her details, 

 see Hoogstraal (1956a). 



EAST AFRICA ; SUDAN (As Haemaphysalis sp. nov.: Hoogstraal 

 195^31 As H. bequaerti sp. nov.: Hoogstraal 1956A). 



UGANDA and KENYA (Hoogstraal 1956A). 



HOSTS 



Hyraxes: Heterohyrax brucei hoogstraali , Procavia habessinica 

 slatini, and P. capensis meneliki (Hoogstraal 1956AJ. 



BIOLOGY 



H. bequaerti in all its stages is apparently strictly host- 

 spec i7ic"'orn^^raxes. A rather large number of hyraxes examined 



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