Rhipicephalus evertsi Neumann, 1897

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 118

26. Rhipicephalus evertsi Neumann, 1897 .

Afrotropical: 1) Angola, 2) Botswana, 3) Burkina Faso, 4) Burundi, 5) Cameroon, 6) Central African Republic, 7) Chad (south), 8) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 9) Djibouti, 10) Eritrea, 11) Eswatini, 12) Ethiopia, 13) Gambia, 14) Ghana, 15) Guinea, 16) Ivory Coast, 17) Kenya, 18) Lesotho, 19) Malawi, 20) Mali (south), 21) Mauritania (south), 22) Mauritius, 23) Mozambique, 24) Namibia, 25) Niger (south), 26) Nigeria, 27) Rwanda, 28) Saudi Arabia (south), 29) Senegal, 30) Somalia, 31) South Africa, 32) South Sudan, 33) Sudan, 34) Tanzania, 35) Uganda, 36) Yemen, 37) Zambia, 38) Zimbabwe; Palearctic: 1) Saudi Arabia (north) ( Hoogstraal 1956 a, Aeschlimann 1967, Yeoman & Walker 1967, Walker 1974, Pegram 1976, Norval 1981, Pegram et al. 1982 b, Barré & Morel 1983, Keirans 1985 b, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Cumming 1999, Walker et al. 2000, Morel 2003, Lynen et al. 2007, ElGhali & Hassan 2012. Uilenberg et al. 2013, Diarra et al. 2017, Horak et al. 2018, Alanazi et al. 2019, Ledger et al. 2021, Okwuonu et al. 2021, Shekede et al. 2021, Sili et al. 2021, Sylla et al. 2021).

Guglielmone et al. (2014) treated Rhipicephalus evertsi as an Afrotropical tick, but Guglielmone et al. (2020) also listed Palearctic records from Saudi Arabia in Alanazi et al. (2019).

Rhipicephalus evertsi was found in Bangladesh by Rahman & Mondal (1985), who believed that this tick may have been introduced with imported domestic animals but is not established in that country. Bouhous et al. (2011) recorded one specimen of Rhipicephalus evertsi in Algeria, but according to these authors, additional studies are needed to confirm the presence of endemic populations in that country. There are unconfirmed records of this species from Gabon and Togo in Morel (2003), countries that are provisionally excluded from the range of Rhipicephalus evertsi . Farooqi et al. (2017) allegedly found Rhipicephalus evertsi in Pakistan, but this diagnosis is treated as probably erroneous here. The presence of this tick in Egypt was due to specimens found on imported cattle ( Okely et al. 2022).

Most workers regard Rhipicephalus evertsi as comprising two subspecies, but Guglielmone et al. (2014) believe that additional species may exist under this name.