Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories Author Guglielmone, Alberto A. 0000-0001-5430-2889 guglielmone.alberto@inta.gob.ar Author Nava, Santiago 0000-0001-7791-4239 nava.santiago@inta.gob.ar Author Robbins, Richard G. 0000-0003-2443-5271 robbinsrg@si.edu text Zootaxa 2023 2023-03-07 5251 1 1 274 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1 journal article 235222 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1 43227427-a867-4744-9e4c-2b2302524890 1175-5326 7704190 3326BF76-A2FB-4244-BA4C-D0AF81F55637 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 .