223. Ixodes spinae Arthur, 1958c .

Afrotropical: 1) South Africa (Theiler 1962, Kolonin 2009, Horak et al. 2018). Elbl & Anastos (1966b) tentatively reported the presence of Ixodes spinae in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This view was apparently supported by Kolonin (2009), but we believe that the record in Elbl & Anastos (1966b) requires confirmation, and that country is provisionally excluded from the range of this tick.