2. Africaniella transversale (Lucas, 1845) .

Afrotropical: 1) Burkina Faso, 2) Cameroon, 3) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 4) Guinea-Bissau, 5) Ivory Coast, 6) Mali (south), 7) Mozambique, 8) Senegal, 9) South Africa, 10) Tanzania, 11) Togo, 12) Uganda, 13) Zambia, 14) Zimbabwe (Lamontellerie 1960, Morel & Mouchet 1965, Aeschlimann 1967, Yeoman & Walker 1967, Colbo 1973, Morel 1978, Norval 1985 a, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Tandon 1991, Terenius et al. 2000, Kolonin 2009, Burridge 2011, Horak et al. 2018).

Most records of Africaniella transversale have been published under the name Aponomma tranversale or Amblyomma transversale, but Hornok et al. (2020c) placed this species in the genus Africaniella, as proposed by Santos Dias (1996).