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Southern Africa is comprised of the countries of South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho. For the purposes of this book, we are also including the Maputo Province of Mozambique as it abuts the eastern borders of South Africa and Swaziland, and the vegetation is contiguous with that of the north-eastern part of the South African province of Kwazulu-Natal. The hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) are ectoparasites of vertebrates, and infest a large number of Southern African vertebrate species. Eighty-three ixodid tick species have been described as having distributions that include Southern Africa and 22 of these species have distributions confined to Southern Africa.
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Horak, I.G. et al. (2018). Introduction. In: The Ixodid Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of Southern Africa. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70642-9_1
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