■ARABIA. : YMEM (Sanborn and Hoogstraal 1953. Hoogstraal, ms.). 



NOTE: The known distribution of this species in Arabia on 

 the map of the American Geographical Society (195A-) should be 

 limited to the mountains of the Yemen. 



MISCELLAIJEOUS : Tonelli-Rondelli (1938) noted that Stella 

 (1938D^ had reported R. simus from ITALY and indicated that this 

 report is certainly aii error in identification; also that this 

 species is absent from LIBYA /"reported as present by Stella 

 (1938C) 7, ALGERIA, TUNISIA, and MQRCCCO. Records for Mytilene, 

 GREECE "(Senevet 1920) , repeated without further substantiation 

 by Pandazis (1947), and records for TURKEY (Stefko 1917) are 

 probably also erroneous or refer to introduced, non-established 

 specimens. 



Neumann (l91l) listed R. simus from EGYPT and Brumpt (1920) 

 stated that East Coast fever exists in Egypt and might be carried 

 by this tick. Mason (1922B) quoted this as an erroneous statement 

 that R. simus occured in Egypt, to which Brumpt (1923, p. 43, 

 footnote J replied that he had merely hypothesized this possibility 

 on the basis of Neumann's record. Carpano (1936) reported micro- 

 organisms in specimens of this tick (?imported or misidentified - 

 HH) collected from carnivores in the Cairo zoological gardens. 

 Actually, the glossy tick is not established in Egypt, as con- 

 firmed earlier by Mason (1922B). 



Records from TURKESTAN (Yakimov and Kohl-Yakimov 1911, Yakimov 

 1917,1922,1923) are based on material now considered as subspecies 

 of R. sanguineus (cf . page 717). The "R. simus or R. sanguineus " 

 from tortoises in IRAN C'-'ichael 1899) probably refers to H. 

 aegyptium . ~ 



Data from BCP.NEO (Neumann 1901) probably refers to R. 

 sanguineus subsp. or to R. haemaphysaloides subsp. 



Christophers (190X) reported R. simus from southern INDIA 

 but, as Sharif (1928) says, this too is probably a misidentifica- 

 tion. Patton's (1910) remarks concerning the transmission of 

 Firoplasraa gibsoni of India by a new species of tick related to 

 R. simus have been elaborated in subsequent reviews to indicate 

 that R. simus transmits this organism. 



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