IXODES ALLUAUDI Neumann, 1913. 

 (Figures 339 to 3a) 

 THE SHREW RUSSET TICK 



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1 Kipia Crocidura sp. Jan (BMNH) 



This nymph was taken at 8000 feet elevation in the Imatong 

 Mountains from the tail of an unidentified Crocidura shrew. It 

 is specimen number 1950.3-20-^2 in British Museum (Natural History) 

 collections and has recently been identified by Arthxir (1956 cor- 

 respondence) . 



DISTRIBUTION 



Ixodes aTTuaudi is known only from the Imatong Mountains of 

 the Sudan, highland forests and ^pine meadows of Tanganyika, 

 Kenya, and several localities in Basutoland and the Union of South 

 Africa. Intervening populations undoubtedly have been overlooked. 



EAST AFRICA ; SUDAN (Not previously recorded. Arthur, ms.). 

 TANGANYIKA (Neumann 1913). KENYA (Arthur, ms.). 



SOUTHERN AFRICA ; Ul^ION OF SOUTH AFRICA (Theiler 1941. Arthur, 

 ms.). BASUTOLAND (Arthur, ms.). 



HOSTS 



The species of the Sudan host is not knovm. Crocidura shrews 

 recorded from the Imatong Mountains during the present study are 

 C. hildegardeae phaios and C. ny ansae toritensis (common), both 

 of which are described as new subspecies (Setzer 1956). The host 

 of Neumann's material was not stated. 



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