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 2. Africaniella transversale ( Lucas, 1845 ) . Afrotropical: 1) Burkina Faso , 2) Cameroon , 3) Democratic Republic of the Congo , 4) Guinea-Bissau , 5) Ivory Coast , 6) Mali (south), 7) Mozambique , 8) Senegal , 9) South Africa , 10) Tanzania , 11) Togo , 12) Uganda , 13) Zambia , 14) Zimbabwe ( Lamontellerie 1960 , Morel & Mouchet 1965 , Aeschlimann 1967 , Yeoman & Walker 1967 , Colbo 1973 , Morel 1978 , Norval 1985 a , Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Tandon 1991 , Terenius et al. 2000 , Kolonin 2009 , Burridge 2011 , Horak et al. 2018 ). Most records of Africaniella transversale have been published under the name Aponomma tranversale or Amblyomma transversale , but Hornok et al. (2020c) placed this species in the genus Africaniella , as proposed by Santos Dias (1996) .