RHIPICEPHALUS LQNGICOXATUS Neumann, 1905. 



(Figures 273 to 276) 



THE SCMALI GLOSSI TICK 



DISTRIBUTION IN THE SUDAN 



Bahr El Ghazal Province ; Galual-Nyang Forest, I5 ex Syncerus 

 caffer aequinoctialis , 18 Febniary 1953, H. Hoogstraal legit . 



DISTRIBUTION 



R. longicoxatus is an extremely rare tick from scattered 

 localities throughout East and Central Africa. The bulk of records 

 referring to this species are from the arid Somalilands and coastal 

 lowlands of East Africa, with a few savannah records from a cir- 

 cumscribed area in the interior of the continent. 



CENTRAL AFRICA ; FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA (Rousselot 1953B) . 



EAST AFRICA ; SUDAN (Hoogstraal 195/hB). 



FRENCH SOMALILAND, BRITISH SOMALILAND, KENYA (Hoogstraal 1953D). 

 TANGANYIKA (Neumann 1905. Hoogstraal 1953D) . Note: Recently while 

 identifying specimens for British ^fllse^lm (Natural History), another 

 male R. longicoxatus with the following data has been encountered; 

 Caniel7 Las Anod, British Somaliland, 21 September 1936; B. F. Peck 

 legit (with R. pravus , Hyalomma dromedarii , H. rufipes , and H. 

 truncatum ) . "" ~ 



/"7ITALIAN SOMALILAND; Figure 17 and 18 in Paoli (1916), 

 reported as R. ecinictus , on the basis of two males, one from 

 the ground and one from a camel, may refer to R. longicoxatus 

 with the characteristic shape of the adanal shaelds, as illus- 

 trated, very slightly modified, or to R. humeralis. / 



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