Near East including Arabia, and North Africa. Elsewhere in Africa, 

 small populations are scattered through the drier transitional 

 areas just south of the northern deserts from the Red Sea to the 

 Atlantic Ocean. 



Soviet workers in Transcaucasia consider this to be a 

 "Mediterranean species" in contrast to the other hyalommas of 

 their territory, which they classify as either "widely spread 

 in the southern part of the Palearctic Region" or "peculiar to 

 the zone of western deserts" (Pomerantzev, Matikashvily, and 

 Lototsky 194.0). 



The mapped distribution of H. marginatum (= H. savignyi ) as 

 presented by the American Geo grs^hical Society (liJ^^U) does not 

 correspond to the range of any recognized species in this genus. 



NORTH AFP.ICA ; "NORTH AFRICA" (As H. marginatum balcanicum ; 

 Schulze and Schlottke 1930). 



EGYPT (As Cynorhaestes aegyptius ; Virey 1822. As H. 

 savignyi ; Hoogstraal 195AS. StibJ.1 populations exist on the 

 Mediterranean littoral and in desert edge situations of Nile 

 Valley and Delta; somewhat more common in Sinai: Hoogstreial, 

 ms.) . 



LIBYA (Specimens from several localities in HH collection. 

 As H. marginatum balcanicum ; Stella 1938C). 



TUNISIA (As H. tunesiacum ; Schulze and Schlottke 1930. 

 As H. savignyi ; IJolas-Belcour and Rageau 1951). 



MOROCCO (As H. savignyi ; Blanc, Martin, and Maurice 194-6, 

 194-7A,B. Blanc, 'Bruneau, Martin, and Maurice 194-8. Blanc and 

 Br\meau 194-9. Blanc, Martin, and Bruneau 194-9. Blanc 1951). 



ALGHIIA /"According to Delpy (correspondence), the H. 

 aegyptium of Senevet and subsequent French workers in Algeria, 

 is H. marginatm (= Delpy's H. savignyi ). - The "H. aegyptium f 

 life cycle studies reported "By Nuttall (1913) on'material from 

 Algeria refer to H. marginatum (HH determination of Nuttall lot 

 1305 in British Museum Natural History). Most of the references 



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