IXODES SIMPLEX SIMPLSiC Neumann, 1906. 

 (Figures 230 and 231 ) 

 THE SHORT-LEGGED BAT-RUSSET-TICK 



L N 9 cf ECkUATORIA PROVINCE RECORD 



1 Katire Rhinolophus clivosus zambesiensis May (CNHM) 



Katire is at 3500 feet elevation in the Imatong Mountains. The 

 tick noted above was sent for identification after having been re- 

 moved at Chicago Natural History Museum from a host collected by 

 Mr. John Owen. This is the only record of this species from the 

 Sudan. 



DISTRIBUTION 



The subspecies simplex has a wide distribution throughout 

 the warmer parts of the Old World. In Africa, it is thus far 

 known only from the Sudan, Kenya ^where the only other subspecies, 

 africanus Arthur, 1956(A), also occurs 7> and the Union of South 

 Africa . Elsewhere , it is found in the~Near East, southern Europe, 

 and Asia from Shanghai to Japan. A larger, closely related South 

 African form has been noted by Arthur (1956A) as Ixodes sp. incer- 

 tae. 



Africa 



/ "CENTRAL AFRICA ; BELGIAN CC»JGO. The subspecies mentioned 

 by Bequaert (193 UB, 1931) is not now certain. Records from French 

 Equatorial Africa (Neumann 1906,1911, and Nuttall and Warbvurton 

 1911), refer actually to material from Kashmir or a neighboring 

 country in southern Asiaj cf . Arthur (1956a)_j7 



EAST AFRICA ; SUDAN (As I. simplex : Hoogstraal 1954B. As 

 1. simplex simplex ; Arthur 1956AJ. 



KENYA /Krthvir 1956A. Note; I. simplex was listed by Love- 

 ridge (I936S) from Kenya; his specimens, from Mt. Elgon, are not 



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