Kimberley, Northern Cape
"M. taeniatus" has been found infesting the African pied hornbill ("Tockus fasciatus") in the Cote D'Ivoire. It has also been found infesting the helmeted guinea fowl ("Numida meliagris") in Kimberley, Northern Cape Province, South Africa and the Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill ("Tockus leucomelas") in Limpopo Province, South Africa. It was renamed from "Echinorhynchus taeniatus" to its present name by Dollfus in 1936.