Amblyomma tholloni Neumann, 1899

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 : 64

122. Amblyomma tholloni Neumann, 1899 .

Afrotropical: 1) Angola, 2) Burkina Faso, 3) Burundi, 4) Cameroon, 5) Central African Republic, 6) Chad (south), 7) Congo, 8) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 9) Equatorial Guinea, 10) Gabon, 11) Ghana, 12) Ivory Coast, 13) Kenya, 14) Liberia, 15) Malawi, 16) Mali (south), 17) Mozambique, 18) Nigeria, 19) Rwanda, 20) Sierra Leone, 21) Somalia, 22) South Africa, 23) South Sudan, 24) Tanzania, 25) Uganda, 26) Zambia, 27) Zimbabwe ( Hoogstraal 1956 a, Santos Dias 1958a, Morel & Magimel 1959, Aeschlimann 1967, Yeoman & Walker 1967, Keirans 1985 b, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Walker & Olwage 1987, Tandon 1991, Morel 2003, Ntiamoa-Baidu et al. 2004, Burridge 2011, Pourrut et al. 2011, ElGhali & Hassan 2012, Uilenberg et al. 2013, Horak et al. 2018, Olivieri et al. 2021).

The presence of Amblyomma tholloni in Mali is based on data provided by Santos Dias (1958a).

Keirans (1985b) tentatively classified as Amblyomma tholloni a female specimen collected in Ethiopia, and that country is not included within the geographic distribution of this tick. Burridge (2011) and Kariuki et al. (2019) included Sudan within the range of Amblyomma tholloni , but no bona fide records of this tick have been found within the current territory of Sudan. Walker & Olwage (1987) stated that Amblyomma tholloni is no longer found where its principal host, the African elephant, has been extirpated.