 Reference Base  Noteworthy African tick records in the British Museum (Na... |
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Hoogstraal, H., 1954. Noteworthy African tick records in the British Museum (Natural History) collections (Ixodoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 56 (6): 273-279
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan |
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Diseases - Parasites |
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White Rhino |
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Amblyomma rhinocerotis de Geer, 1778 (= A. petersi Karsch, 1878) (Ixodidae). [In British Museum, London] 1 male, 1 female from grass, Kajo Kaji, Equatoria Province, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Captain C.M. Stigand. Previously only known from Torit and Bor in the Sudan, this is the only record of the rhinoceros tick from west of the Nile in this territory. It is probably associated with the white rhino.
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