Ixodes schillingsi Neumann, 1901

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 : 32

209. Ixodes schillingsi Neumann, 1901 .

Afrotropical: 1) Kenya, 2) Mozambique, 3) South Sudan, 4) Tanzania, 5) Zimbabwe ( Yeoman & Walker 1967, Walker 1974, Norval et al. 1987, Kolonin 2009).

Burridge (2011) and Guglielmone & Robbins (2018) listed Cameroon, the Central African Republic and Rwanda as being within the range of Ixodes schillingsi , but Morel & Mouchet (1965), who dealt with ticks from Cameroon, Uilenberg et al. (2013), who worked with ticks from the Central African Republic, and Elbl & Anastos (1966b), who studied ticks from Central Africa, including Rwanda, accepted the presence of Ixodes rageaui in those countries, but not Ixodes schillingsi . However, Ixodes rageaui and Ixodes schillingsi are morphologically similar species, and confusion may occur when attempting to identify some specimens.