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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.

Noteworthy African tick records in the British Museum (Natural History) collections (Ixodoidea)

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Location Uganda Subject Distribution Species White Rhino (simum)

Amblyomma cohaerens D?nitz, 1909 (Ixodidae). [In British Museum, London] 4 males, 1 female from black rhinoceros, Fateo, Victoria Nile, Uganda, C.R.S. Pitman. This is the only record of the buffalo tick attacking a rhinoceros.

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Location Uganda Subject Distribution Species White Rhino (simum) Year 1954

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.

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Location Uganda Subject Distribution Species White Rhino (simum)

Dermacentor rhinocerinus Denny, 1813 (= D. rhinocerotis of authors). [In British Museum, London] 1 male, from Diceros bicornis, Northern Rhodesia (withoiut further locality), 6 July 1932, H.S. Purchase (Nuttall lot 3856). This specimen, which has been determined as 'variety permaculatus Nm' appears to be the only record of this tick from Northern Rhodesia.

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Location Uganda Subject Distribution Species White Rhino (simum)

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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Location Uganda Subject Distribution Species White Rhino (simum)

Amblyomma cohaerens D?nitz, 1909 (Ixodidae). [In British Museum, London] 4 males, 1 female from black rhinoceros, Fateo, Victoria Nile, Uganda, C.R.S. Pitman. This is the only record of the buffalo tick attacking a rhinoceros.

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