Rhipicephalus praetextatus Gerstäcker, 1873

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 : 126

60. Rhipicephalus praetextatus Gerstäcker, 1873 .

Afrotropical: 1) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2) Djibouti, 3) Eritrea, 4) Ethiopia, 5) Kenya, 6) Saudi Arabia (south), 7) Somalia, 8) South Sudan, 9) Sudan, 10) Tanzania, 11) Uganda, 12) Yemen; Palearctic: 1) Egypt ( Pegram et al. 1987 a, Walker et al. 2000, Lynen et al. 2007, Kolonin 2009, ElGhali & Hassan 2012, Abdally et al. 2020, Byaruhanga et al. 2021, Olivieri et al. 2021, Peter et al. 2021).

Camicas et al. (1998) treated Rhipicephalus praetextatus as an Afrotropical species, but records from Egypt (Palearctic) are regarded as valid here, although Okely et al. (2022) listed this species as non-endemic in Egypt.

Rhipicephalus praetextatus had been widely confused with Rhipicephalus simus and Rhipicephalus muhsamae prior to its reinstatement by Pegram et al. (1987a). However, the geographical limits of the distribution of Rhipicephalus praetextatus are uncertain. Walker et al. (2000) listed Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda and Yemen as the only countries where the presence of Rhipicephalus praetextatus has been confirmed. On the other hand, these authors regarded this tick as widespread in northeastern Africa, although records from countries other than those just named require definitive confirmation, and they are provisionally included within the range of Rhipicephalus praetextatus .