104. Amblyomma rhinocerotis (De Geer, 1778). Afrotropical: 1) Central African Republic, 2) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 3) Ethiopia, 4) Kenya, 5) Malawi, 6) Mozambique, 7) Somalia, 8) South Africa, 9) South Sudan, 10) Tanzania, 11) Uganda, 12) Zambia, 13) Zimbabwe (Hoogstraal 1956 a, Theiler 1962, Elbl & Anastos 1966 a, Yeoman & Walker 1967, Walker 1974, Morel 1980, Norval 1983, Keirans 1985 b, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Tandon 1991, ElGhali & Hassan 2012, Uilenberg et al. 2013, Horak et al. 2018). Amblyomma rhinocerotis has been confused with Dermacentor rhinocerinus and vice versa (Guglielmone & Nava 2014). Several records of Amblyomma rhinocerotis have been published under the name Amblyomma petersi and, to a lesser extent, Amblyomma aureum. The current geographic distribution of Amblyomma rhinocerotis is most probably narrower than depicted above because its chief hosts, rhinoceros, have been exterminated in several African territories (Uilenberg et al. 2013). Neumann (1899) described Amblyomma aureum, a synonym of Amblyomma rhinocerotis, and associated it with a tick found in Indonesia, but this claim was not repeated in his subsequent papers. Neumann (1911) listed Liberia and Madagascar as lying within the geographic distribution of Amblyomma petersi, another synonym of Amblyomma rhinocerotis, but these countries were considered outside the range of this tick by Hoogstraal (1956a). However, Elbl & Anastos (1966a) listed the presence of Amblyomma rhinocerotis in Liberia as valid. We do not include Indonesia, Liberia and Madagascar within the range of Amblyomma rhinocerotis.

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-274 in Zootaxa 5251 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7704190