Dermacentor circumguttatus 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 : 70

6. Dermacentor circumguttatus Neumann, 1897 .

Afrotropical: 1) Cameroon, 2) Central African Republic, 3) Chad (south), 4) Congo, 5) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 6) Equatorial Guinea, 7) Gabon, 8) Ghana, 9) Ivory Coast, 10) Liberia, 11) Mozambique, 12) Nigeria, 13) Sierra Leone, 14) South Sudan, 15) Tanzania, 16) Uganda ( Hoogstraal 1956 a, Aeschlimann 1967, Keirans 1985 b, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Morel 2003, Ntiamoa-Baidu et al. 2004, Kolonin 2009, Pourrout et al. 2011, ElGhali & Hassan 2012, Uilenberg et al. 2013, Kariuki et al. 2019).

The above geographic distribution of Dermacentor circumguttatus is historical. The current range of this tick has surely been reduced because its principal hosts, elephants, have been exterminated in several African territories. The presence of Dermacentor circumguttatus in Chad is supported by data in Morel (2003), who used the name Amblyocentor circumguttatus , while the record from Equatorial Guinea is based on Keirans (1985b).

Ramzan et al. (2020b) listed Dermacentor circumguttatus as a tick found in Pakistan, but this is almost certainly a misidentification.