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Rhipicephalus

  • 1. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Smithsonian Institution, Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland 20746, USA & One Health Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA & Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560, USA
  • 2. Instituto de Investigación de la Cadena Láctea (INTA-CONICET), Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela, ruta 34 km 227, Rafaela, Santa Fe, Argentina
  • 3. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815, USA
  • 4. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA & Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 5. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela, ruta 34 km 227, CP 2300 Rafaela, Argentina

Description

breviceps Warburton, 1910, Rhipicephalus

Warburton, C. (1910) On two collections of Indian ticks. Parasitology, 3, 395–407.

Type depository: BMNH: holotype (female) (Keirans & Hillyard 2001)

Type locality: Sind, Pakistan

Type host: Hemiechinus collaris

Current status: a name incertae sedis (Guglielmone & Nava 2014).

Notes

Published as part of Robbins, Richard G., Nava, Santiago, Ronai, Isobel, Chong, Kaylin L. & Guglielmone, Alberto A., 2025, Type specimens of the world's hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names, pp. 1-287 in Zootaxa 5606 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15215074

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Ixodida
Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Rhipicephalus
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Warburton, C. (1910) On two collections of Indian ticks. Parasitology, 3, 395-407. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182000002237
  • Keirans, J. E. & Hillyard, P. D. (2001) A catalogue of the type specimens of Ixodida (Acari: Argasidae, Ixodidae) deposited in The Natural History Museum, London. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology, 13, 1-74.
  • Guglielmone, A. A. & Nava, S. (2014) Names for Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): valid, synonyms, incertae sedis, nomina dubia, nomina nuda, lapsus, incorrect and suppressed names - with notes on confusions and misidentifications. Zootaxa, 3767 (1), 1-256. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3767.1.1