Ictonyx libyca (Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833) . Symb. Phys. Mamm., vol. 1, pt. 2, sig. K, verso.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Libyae" [Libya].

DISTRIBUTION: Fringes of the Sahara Desert from Morocco and Egypt on the north, and from Mauretania and N Nigeria to Sudan on the south.

SYNONYMS: frenata Sundevall, 1843; multivittata Wagner, 1841; oralis Thomas and Hinton, 1920; rothschildi Thomas and Hinton, 1920; vaillantii Loche, 1856 .