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 106. Haemaphysalis muhsamae Santos Dias, 1954a . Afrotropical: 1) Botswana , 2) Kenya , 3) Mozambique , 4) South Africa , 5) Tanzania , 6) Zimbabwe ( Tomlinson et al. 2018 ). Haemaphysalis muhsamae has proved to be an elusive species, difficult to identify with certainty and considered provisionally valid in Guglielmone & Nava (2014) and Guglielmone et al. (2014). Our review of Haemaphysalis muhsamae is based on Tomlinson et al. (2018) , who validated this species, redescribed the male and female, and designated a neotype . These authors stated that redescriptions of Haemaphysalis muhsamae , most of them under the name Haemaphysalis leachi muhsami , in Hoogstraal (1956a) and others, are based on doubtful material. Tomlinson et al. (2018) also found that many specimens of Haemaphysalis muhsamae in collections were catalogued as Haemaphysalis spinulosa . Ngoy et al. (2021) found an alleged specimen of Haemaphysalis muhsamae in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , but this diagnosis requires confirmation.