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 96. Amblyomma personatum Neumann, 1901 . Afrotropical: 1) Gabon , 2) Kenya , 3) Tanzania ( Neumann 1901 , Theiler 1962 , Yeoman & Walker 1967 , Walker 1974 , Matthysse & Colbo 1987 , Olivieri et al. 2021 ). Kolonin (2009) and Guglielmone & Robbins (2018) listed only Kenya and Tanzania as being within the geographic distribution of Amblyomma personatum , while Neumann (1901) described this species from adult ticks collected in Gabon and Kenya . However, no additional records of Amblyomma personatum from Gabon have been found, including during the study of Pourrut et al. (2011) , who investigated the ticks occurring there. Amblyomma personatum has chiefly been collected from highly endangered rhinoceros, so perhaps this tick is no longer present in Gabon , a country provisionally considered within the range of Amblyomma personatum . This situation may also apply to Kenya and Tanzania .