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Africaniella transversale

Africaniella transversale

(Lucas, 1845)

GBIF:209449856

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Descriptions(2)

Most records of Africaniella transversale have been published under the name Aponomma tranversale or Amblyomma transversale, but Hornok et al. (2020 c) placed this species in the genus Africaniella, as proposed by Santos Dias (1996).
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): 1-274, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1
Afrotropical: 1) Burkina Faso, 2) Cameroon, 3) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 4) Guinea-Bissau, 5) Ivory Coast, 6) Mali (south), 7) Mozambique, 8) Senegal, 9) South Africa, 10) Tanzania, 11) Togo, 12) Uganda, 13) Zambia, 14) Zimbabwe (Lamontellerie 1960, Morel & Mouchet 1965, Aeschlimann 1967, Yeoman & Walker 1967, Colbo 1973, Morel 1978, Norval 1985 a, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Tandon 1991, Terenius et al. 2000, Kolonin 2009, Burridge 2011, Horak et al. 2018).
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): 1-274, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1

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Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article 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): 1-274, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1

Abstract

The hard tick family Ixodidae currently comprises 762 species worldwide, but an analysis of the occurrence of these species in the world´s countries, territories, zoogeographic regions (Afrotropical, Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental, Palearctic) and remote islands has not been attempted since 2009. Here, we present and critically discuss distributional data for all currently accepted ixodid species known from 226 countries and territories in six zoogeographic realms. This summary of ixodid tick biogeography should prove to be a valuable reference for biologists interested in ticks as organisms as well as specialists focusing on tick-borne diseases. Data for all species treated here were derived from a literature search that ended on March 31, 2022.

Guglielmone A A, Nava S, Robbins R G, plazi (2023). Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/2b9vbx accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-14.

CC0Published 3/7/2023View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
209449856
Dataset Key
43227427-a867-4744-9e4c-2b2302524890
Origin
source
Backbone Key
12376433
Taxon ID
03966A560F4DC74DBABF8BA5B41BFE61.taxon
Last Crawled
6/9/2026
Last Interpreted
6/9/2026