20. Rhipicephalus cuspidatus Neumann, 1906 .

Afrotropical: 1) Benin, 2) Burkina Faso, 3) Cameroon, 4) Central African Republic, 5) Chad (south), 6) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 7) Gambia, 8) Ghana, 9) Guinea-Bissau, 10) Ivory Coast, 11) Mali (south), 12) Mauritania (south), 13) Niger (south), 14) Nigeria, 15) Senegal, 16) South Sudan, 17) Sudan (Tendeiro 1951, Hoogstraal 1956 a, Elbl & Anastos 1966c, Terenius et al. 2000, Walker et al. 2000, Morel 2003, Ntiamoa-Baidu et al. 2004, Kolonin 2009, ElGhali & Hassan 2012, Uilenberg et al. 2013, Sylla et al. 2021).

Stella (1940) reported the presence of Rhipicephalus cuspidatus in Ethiopia, but Hoogstraal (1956a) treated that author’s diagnosis as questionable, and Ethiopia is provisionally excluded from the range of this tick.