Rhipicephalus punctatus Warburton, 1912

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 127

65. Rhipicephalus punctatus Warburton, 1912 .

Afrotropical: 1) Malawi, 2) Rwanda, 3) Tanzania, 4) Uganda, 5) Zambia ( Yeoman & Walker 1967, Pegram et al. 1986, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Walker et al. 2000).

The southern limit of the geographic distribution of Rhipicephalus punctatus is uncertain because a potentially new species named Rhipicephalus sp. near punctatus has been found in Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Zambia (most records) ( Walker et al. 2000). Additionally, Rhipicephalus punctatus has been confused with Rhipicephalus pravus , while specimens of Rhipicephalus sp. near punctatus and Rhipicephalus punctatus collected in South Africa ( Fourie & Horak 1990, 1991, Horak et al. 2018) were re-identified as Rhipicephalus warburtoni . Gomes (1994) reported Rhipicephalus punctatus from Angola, a record not listed in Walker et al. (2000), and Angola is provisionally excluded from the geographic distribution of this tick.