Rhipicephalus afranicus Bakkes, 2020

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 : 112

1. Rhipicephalus afranicus Bakkes, 2020

in Bakkes et al. (2020).

Afrotropical: 1) Angola. 2) Botswana, 3) Cameroon, 4) Malawi, 5) Mozambique, 6) Namibia, 7) Nigeria, 8) Senegal, 9) South Africa, 10) Sudan, 11) Tanzania, 12) Uganda, 13) Zambia, 14) Zimbabwe ( Bakkes et al. 2020, Balinandi et al. 2020, Springer et al. 2020).

Rhipicephalus afranicus was widely referred to as Rhipicephalus turanicus prior to its description by Bakkes et al. (2020), who found that African specimens of Rhipicephalus turanicus in Pegram et al. (1987) do not represent that species, a situation earlier anticipated by Guglielmone & Nava (2014) and Guglielmone et al. (2014).

The presence of Rhipicephalus afranicus in Mozambique is based on Horak et al. (2018), who use the name Rhipicephalus turanicus for specimens collected there that, in fact, are Rhipicephalus afranicus . However, Esculudis et al. (2022) continue to maintain that Rhipicephalus turanicus but not Rhipicephalus afranicus is present in Mozambique.