On Ticks (Ixodidae) of Southern French Somaliland and the Rediscovery of Rhipicephalus Longicoxatus Neumann 19051
- 1 September 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 46 (3) , 393-398
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/46.3.393
Abstract
This brief tick survey of Southern French Somaliland was made in July 1950, during the height of the dry period. What remains of the human population at this season in the torrid, forbidding, sparsely inhabited land is concentrated in the capital, Djibouti, an important seaport and rail terminus and in small outlying oases. Many families have migrated to the Ethiopian highlands with their herds of sheep, goats and cattle in search of grazing and water. The area lies within the Somali Arid District of the Eastern Ethiopian fauna, and gradually rises from sea level desert or semidesert to sparsely vegetated, boulderstrewn foothills, outliers of the Abyssinian highlands, interspersed with salt flats.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: