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 22. Rhipicephalus deltoideus Neumann, 1910b . Afrotropical: 1) Lesotho ( Walker et al. 2000 , Kolonin 2009 ). Rhipicephalus deltoideus is known from one male and three females collected in Lesotho and used by Neumann (1910b) to describe this species because all other records from the Democratic Republic of the Congo , South Africa and Uganda were misidentified or unconfirmed, as discussed in Walker et al. (2000) .