HAH-IAPHY SALTS HOUYI Nuttall and Warburton, 1915- 

 (Figures UO to U3) 

 TEE WEST AFRICAiN GROUl'ID-SQiUIRIlEL TICK 



N o d^ BiUATORIA PROVINCE RECORDS 



Eiixerus er:/thropus levicoujTibrinus Dec 



EvDcerus er:/thropus leucoimbrinus Jan (2) 



Euxerus er';,^hrop'us leucoumbrinus Feb 



<. J. xwo.^- Euxerus erjy-thropu^ leucoumbrinus Mar 



2 28 12 13 Torit Euxeros er^rthropus leucoxjmbrinus Dec (U) 



- ■ Euxerus er],i:hrop'us leiAcoumbrinus Apr (SVS) 



Euxerus erythropus ? lacustrrs Apr 



DISTRIBUTION IN THE SUDAI^ 



Bahr El Ghazal ; All from Galual-Nyang Forest, from five spec- 

 imens"or "SiKerus erythropus subspp., in 1953, by H. Hoogstraal: 

 66c^ I5, 17 February; Aoif, 590, U nymphs, 19 February; 2:^, 16 

 February. 



Upper Nile: Bor, ex " Xerus rutilus " , 2oD^ 21 May 1909, H. H. 

 King legit T^.C). (This host name is a misidentification for 

 Euxerus er:,rthropus subspp.). 



Blue Nile ; As o of H. calcarata ; Roseires, from ground 

 sqxxirrel" (ieumann 19iOA);~also records two di? that are probably 

 H. houyi; Ch. Alluaud legit ; cf. Hoogstraal (1955D). Kamisa, 

 ISin'^iFTiver, k?, 1$, TrT: Lowe legit £W.{m)J. 



DISTRIBUTION 



H. houyi is a ground-squirrel parasite extending in a belt 

 acros'i tT^etadest part of Africa from the Atlantic Ocean through 

 French West Africa, Cameroons, the Sudan, and Uganda to the north, 

 western corner of Kenya, west of the Rift Valley. It is closely 

 related to H. ca lcarata that parasitizes a different genus of 

 ground squirrels in East Africa east of the Rift Valley (Hoogstraal 

 1955D). See also HOSTS and BIOLOGY below. 



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