Ivan G. Horak is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa.

Heloise Heyne is a Senior Technician and the Curator of the Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum, in the section Epidemiology, Parasites & Vectors, Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa.

G. James Gallivan Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Formerly Department of Biology, University of Swaziland, P/B Kwaluseni, Swaziland.

Roy Williams is a Senior Researcher in the section Epidemiology, Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa.

Arthur M. Spickett is a retired Senior Researcher in the section Epidemiology, Parasites & Vectors at the Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa.

J. Dürr Bezuidenhout is a retired Veterinary Researcher and Deputy Director of the Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa.

Agustín Estrada-Peña is a Professor in the Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.

Comprehensive work on the ticks of Southern Africa, their morphology, distributions, hosts and life cycles

Comprehensive tick/host tables and host/tick tables populated with numbers of hosts infested and most tables with total numbers of ticks collected

Tick-borne diseases and tick-transmitted toxins that affect animals and humans are mentioned in the text and their modes of transmission summarized in tabular format with accompanying references

1. Introduction.- 2. History.- 3. Sources of Information and Methods.- 4. The Genus Amblyomma.- 5. The Genus Haemaphysalis.- 6. The Genus Hyalomma.- 7. The Genus Ixodes.- 8.The Genus Rhipicephalus.- 9. Ticks belonging to other Genera.- 10. Hosts and Host and Vegetation Tick Lists.- 11. Tick-Borne Diseases.