RHIPICEPHALUS SIMUS SMSGALENSIS Koch, l8/^A. 

 (Figures 305 to 308) 

 THE XIMITAR-SHIBLDH) GLOSSY TICK 



L N $ cf EQUATCEIA PROVINCE RECORDS 



5 5 Ninnile Lycaon pictus somalicus Jul (SVS) 



1 Kapoeta* Hippotragus eqiiinus ba^eri Dec 

 1 17 Boma Sync erus caff er ae'quinoctialis Dec 



Plains** 



2 Holo S:/ncerus caffer aequinoctialis Mar 



3 Mongalla Sync erus caffer aequinoctialis - (SGC) 

 L, Kheirallah Sync erus caffer aequinoctialis Mar (SGC ; 



1 LugTorren Phacochoerus aethiopicus bufo Jan 

 10 15 Sunat Phajcochoerus aethiopicus bufo Apr 



3 k Kheirallah Phacochoerus aethiopicus bufo - (SGC; 



2 Bundle domestic dog ^^^.r (SGC) 



(Lado) (c^-!o\ 



U K Magwe on grass May JSVS; 



K U Mvolo on grass - ^ 



1 3 Mvolo on grass ''^^ ^ovo> 



Specimens in the Sudan Government collection noted above were 

 collected by H. H. King in 1910 end 1911. They had been identified 

 as R. simus and as R. falcatus . 



DISTRIBUTIOM IN THE SUDAN 



Bahr El Ghazal: Ic?, lo from buffalo, Guar, Galual-Nyang 



ForesTT^ J^TT953, P. J- Henshaw legit . 1/^, and 5<^ and 18 $$ 



^Collected with 30^ and 1$ R. simus simus . This is the only col- 

 lection seen from anywhere In -nTI^ainJhich typical specimens 

 of both subspecies have been found on a single host. The host 

 was obviously a migrant. 



K»For comment, see BIOLOGY below. 



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