Rhipicephalus distinctus Bedford, 1932

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23. Rhipicephalus distinctus Bedford, 1932 .

Afrotropical: 1) Angola, 2) Botswana, 3) Kenya, 4) Mozambique, 5) Namibia, 6) South Africa, 7) South Sudan, 8) Tanzania, 9) Uganda, 10) Zimbabwe ( Yeoman & Walker 1967, Walker 1974, Norval 1985 b, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Walker et al. 2000, ElGhali & Hassan 2012, Horak et al. 2018).

Walker et al. (2000) found that Rhipicephalus distinctus has been confused with Rhipicephalus neumanni and Rhipicephalus oreotragi .

Cornet (1995) listed Rhipicephalus distinctus as present in the Central African Republic, but Uilenberg et al. (2013) treated the record from that country as unconfirmed. A record of Rhipicephalus distinctus from Pakistan ( Farooqi et al. 2017) is most probably a misidentification. Consequently, both the Central African Republic and Pakistan are excluded from the geographic distribution of Rhipicephalus distinctus .