HYALCMMA SPECIES NO. 2 NEAR EXCAVATm 

 (Figures 335 to 338) 



DISTRIBUTION 



EGfYPT, including Sinai, and LIBYA (H.H. collection). PALESl. 

 TINE (various lots in EMNH identified as "H. excavatum large race", 

 HH det.). MORXCO (Lot 08^2-3-10-13 in EMIJh, HH det.j. CANARY 

 ISLANDS (Nuttall lot 3226 in 34NH, HH det.). YMEN (HH, ms.). 



HOSTS 



Knovm hosts of adults are camels and cattle. In Egypt, im- 

 matvire stages (reared to adults) have been taJcen from spiny mice, 

 Acomys r us sat us , at 5000 feet altitude in Sinai; lesser gerbils, 

 G. g. gerbillus , near Cairo; and fat sandrats, Psammoiws o. 

 obesus , in saline desert areas on the Mediterranean littoral 

 and beside the Nile Delta. 



BIOLOGY 



Biological and life history data id.ll be presented separately 

 (HH, ms.). It is notable that in Egypt we find this species only 

 in certain desert situations from sea level to 5000 feet elevation 

 but never in cultivated areas. 



REMARKS 



"Species number 2" is a large race or species closely related 

 to H. excavatum but differing from it in color and size. The size 

 is even greater than that of "species number 1" but the color is 

 similar. 



Recently Mr. Glen M. Kohls of the Rocky Mountain Laboratory 

 kindly sent us the Schulze collection of "H. anatolicun " for 

 study. The bulk of this material conforms exactly to "Hyalomma 

 species no. 2 near excavatum ". Although a surprising mixture of 



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