RHIPICEPHALUS SUPERTRITUS Nevmann, 1907(b). 

 (Figures 313 to 316) 



THE EAST-AFRICAN SHAGREHTED TICK 



L N $ d' EQUATORIA FROVDCE RECORDS 



1 2 Kajo Kaji Sync eras caffer aequinoctialis Jan 



1 1 Juba Sync eras caffer aequinoctialis Nov (SVS) 



1 "Alangu- Syncerus' caCfer aequinoctialis - (SGC) 

 Acholi" 



The male in the Sudan Government Collection, collected by H. H. 

 King, had been identified by him as R. f ale at us . The collecting 

 locality of this specimen may now be~just inside the Sudan or just 

 over the Uganda border. 



DISTRIBUTION IN THE SUDAN 



Upper Nile ; Sudan Government collections contain a male spec- 

 imen, "colIecTe3~frora a dog at Bor by H. H. King, which had been 

 identified and reported by him (1926) as R. sulcatum . 



DISTRIBUTION 



R. supertritus is an uncomiaon East African tick that ranges 

 into Central Africa and into the northern part of southern Africa. 



CH'TTRAL AFRICA ; CAKSHOONS (Schulze 19U). BELGIAN CONGO 

 (Neumann 151^75,1911. Massey 1908. Nuttall and Warburton 1916. 

 Bequaert 1930B,1931. Zumpt 1942B). 



EAST AFRICA ; SUDAN (in part as R. sulcatus; King 1926. 

 Hoogstraal 1954B) . 



HIITREA (HH collection from Nacta). UGANDA (Nuttall lot 

 2396 in BMNH collections, from Gomba) . KENYA (Lewis 1931A,C, 

 1933, 193^). TANGANYIKA (Zumpt 19A2b). 



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