RHIPICEPHALU5 MUHLENSI Zumpt, 1943(B). 

 (Figtires 281 to 28Z^) 

 MUHLMS* BROWN TICK 



L N 2 c? B5UAT0RLA PROVINCE RECORD 



1 Yei domestic cattle Jan 



n 



R. muhlensi is known in the Sudan by only a single specimen. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Theiler (correspondence) believes that R. muhlensi has been 

 frequently misidentified and that its range is more extensive 

 than present records indicate. 



CENTRAL AFRICA ; BELGIAN CONGO (Theiler and Robinson 195A. 

 These authors also attribute certain other earlier published 

 remarks by other authors to this species) . 



EAST AFRICA ; SUDAN (Hoogstraal 1954B). 



KENYA (Specimens from Makuenij J. B. Walker, unpublished; 

 see HOSTS). TANGANYIKA (Zumpt 1943B. Hoogstraal 195AC. J. B. 

 Walker, unpublished; see HOSTS). 



SOUTHERN AFRICA ; MOZAMBIQUE (Santos Dias 1950B,1953B) . 

 UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA /"As R. masseyi in Zululand: Theiler 

 (1947) (Theiler, correspondence;. See HOSTS. 7 



HOSTS 



It is at present impossible to evaluate the relative impor- 

 tance of the few records from domestic animals in relation to 

 the wide variety of large game animals that this tick is known 

 to attack. As workers become better acquainted with the identity 



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