Figure 1 in Long forgotten record of a freshwater leech on Madagascar indicates a host-associated dispersal event from continental Africa

Figure 1. Range map of Placobdelloides multistriatus. The light red filling indicates country-level records from continental Africa and Western Asia (Oosthuizen 1979; Al-Safadi and El-Shimy 1993; Leslie et al. 2011); the red star indicates F. Sikora's record from Madagascar discussed herein. Map: Mikhail Y. Gofarov.