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 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 .