Haemaphysalis paraleachi Camicas, Hoogstraal & El Kammah, 1983

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119. Haemaphysalis paraleachi Camicas, Hoogstraal & El Kammah, 1983 .

Afrotropical: 1) Angola, 2) Benin, 3) Burundi, 4) Cameroon, 5) Central African Republic, 6) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 7) Ethiopia, 8) Gabon, 9) Guinea, 10) Ivory Coast, 11) Kenya, 12) Liberia, 13) Mali (south), 14) Nigeria, 15) Rwanda, 16) Sierra Leone, 17) South Sudan, 18) Tanzania, 19) Uganda, 20) Zambia ( Matthysse & Colbo 1987, El Kammah et al. 1992, Pourrut et al. 2011, Mediannikov et al. 2012 a, Uilenberg et al. 2013, Kamani et al. 2019, Sili et al. 2021).

Most specimens of Haemaphysalis paraleachi were identified as belonging to the Haemaphysalis leachi group prior to its description by Camicas et al. (1983), as discussed in El Kammah et al. (1992).

The presence of Haemaphysalis paraleachi in South Sudan was not recognized by ElGhali & Hassam (2012).