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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

coriaceus Nuttall & Warburton, 1908, Rhipicephalus

Nuttall, G. H. F. & Warburton, C. (1908) On a new genus of Ixodoidea together with a description of eleven new species. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 14, 392–416.

Type depository: BMNH: a lectotype (female) and paralectotypes (a male and females) were designated by Keirans & Brewster (1981)

Type locality: Malawi

Type host: unknown

Current status: a synonym of Rhipicephalus supertritus (Walker et al. 2000).

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 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15215074

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References

  • Keirans, J. E. & Brewster, B. E. (1981) The Nuttall and British Museum (Natural History) tick collections: lectotype designations for ticks (Acarina: Ixodoidea) described by Nuttall, Warburton, Cooper and Robinson. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, Zoology, 41, 153-178.
  • Walker, J. B., Keirans, J. E. & Horak, I. G. (2000) The genus Rhipicephalus (Acari: Ixodidae): a guide to the brown ticks of the world. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 643 pp. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511661754