65. Rhipicephalus punctatus Warburton, 1912 .

Afrotropical: 1) Malawi, 2) Rwanda, 3) Tanzania, 4) Uganda, 5) Zambia (Yeoman & Walker 1967, Pegram et al. 1986, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Walker et al. 2000).

The southern limit of the geographic distribution of Rhipicephalus punctatus is uncertain because a potentially new species named Rhipicephalus sp. near punctatus has been found in Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Zambia (most records) (Walker et al. 2000). Additionally, Rhipicephalus punctatus has been confused with Rhipicephalus pravus, while specimens of Rhipicephalus sp. near punctatus and Rhipicephalus punctatus collected in South Africa (Fourie & Horak 1990, 1991, Horak et al. 2018) were re-identified as Rhipicephalus warburtoni . Gomes (1994) reported Rhipicephalus punctatus from Angola, a record not listed in Walker et al. (2000), and Angola is provisionally excluded from the geographic distribution of this tick.