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Hyalomma rufipes Koch 1844

Description

22. Hyalomma rufipes Koch, 1844a.

An Afrotropical and Palearctic species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae; larvae and nymphs are commonly recovered from Lagomorpha: Leporidae, although larvae are also frequently collected from Galliformes: Numididae and Phasianidae.All parasitic stages have been found on Aves (several orders), Carnivora: Canidae, Artiodactyla: Bovidae, and Lagomorpha: Leporidae; adults and nymphs have been recovered from Carnivora: Felidae; adult ticks alone have been collected from Mammalia (several orders); larvae and nymphs have been found on Macroscelidea: Macroscelididae; and larvae alone have been taken from Rodentia: Muridae. Hyalomma rufipes is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Koch (1844a)

F: Feldman-Muhsam (1954), as stated in Apanaskevich and Horak (2008b) because the female of Hyalomma rufipes described by Koch (1844a) is in fact Hyalomma truncatum

N: Howard (1908), under the name Hyalomma aegyptium impressum, a name used for a tick species found in South Africa later found to be Hyalomma rufipes

L: Howard (1908), under the name Hyalomma aegyptium impressum, as explained in Camicas (1970) Redescriptions

M: Koch (1847), Feldman-Muhsam (1954), Apanaskevich (2004, under the name Hyalomma marginatum rufipes), Apanaskevich and Horak (2008b), Hosseini-Chegeni et al. (2013), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017), Horak et al. (2018) F: Apanaskevich (2004, under the name Hyalomma marginatum rufipes), Apanaskevich and Horak (2008b), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Apanaskevich (2003c, under the name Hyalomma marginatum rufipes), Apanaskevich and Horak (2008b), Abdel-Shafy et al. (2016), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017)

L: Apanaskevich (2003c) and Apanaskevich and Filippova (2007), both under the name Hyalomma marginatum rufipes, Camicas (1970), Apanaskevich and Horak (2008b), Abdel-Shafy et al. (2016), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017)

Note: considerable problems have historically been encountered in attempting to correctly identify Hyalomma rufipes. Apanaskevich and Horak (2008b) explain the difficulties involved in morphologically identifying this species. Several redescriptions under the name Hyalomma marginatum rufipes are not included in the above lists. Sands et al. (2017b) presented molecular evidence to argue that at least two species are included under the name Hyalomma rufipes.

Notes

Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, pp. 1-322 in Zootaxa 4871 (1) on pages 209-210, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Koch
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Ixodida
Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Hyalomma
Species
rufipes
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hyalomma rufipes Koch, 1844 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020

References

  • Koch, C. L. (1844 a) Systematische Ubersicht uber die Ordnung der Zecken. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 10, 217 - 239. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 29560
  • Feldman-Muhsam, B. (1954) Revision of the genus Hyalomma. I. Description of Koch's types. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel, 4, 150 - 170.
  • Apanaskevich, D. A. & Horak, I. G. (2008 b) The genus Hyalomma Koch, 1844. V. Re-evaluation of the taxonomic rank of taxa comprising the H. (Euhyalomma) marginatum Koch complex of species (Acari: Ixodidae) with redescription of all parasitic stages and notes on biology. International Journal of Acarology, 34, 13 - 42. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 01647950808683704
  • Howard, C. W. (1908) A list of the ticks of South Africa, with descriptions and keys to all the forms known. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 1, 73 - 169. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 84612
  • Camicas, J. L. (1970) Contribution a l'etude des tiques du Senegal (Acarina, Ixodoidea). I. Les larves d' Amblyomma Koch et de Hyalomma Koch. Acarologia, 12, 71 - 102.
  • Koch, C. L. (1847) s. n. Ubersicht des Arachnidensystems, Nurnberg, 4, 1 - 136.
  • Apanaskevich, D. A. (2004) Discrimination of subspecies in a polymorphic species Hyalomma marginatum (Acari, Ixodidae) based on adult stages. Parazitologiya, 38, 20 - 32. [in Russian]
  • Hosseini-Chegeni, A., Hosseini, R., Tavakoli, M., Telmadarraiy, Z. & Abdigoudarzi, M. (2013) The Iranian Hyalomma (Acari: Ixodidae) with a key to the identification of male species. Persian Journal of Acarology, 2, 503 - 529.
  • Estrada-Pena, A., Mihalca, A. D. & Petney, T. N. (2017) Ticks of Europe and North Africa. Springer, Cham, 404 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 63760 - 0
  • Horak, I. G., Heyne, H., Williams, R., Gallivan, G. J., Spickett, A., Bezuidenhout, J. D. & Estrada-Pena, A. (2018) The ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of southern Africa. Springer, Cham, 676 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 70642 - 9
  • Apanaskevich, D. A. (2003 c) Discrimination of subspecies in a polymorphic species Hyalomma marginatum (Acari, Ixodidae) based on immature stages. Parazitologiya, 37, 462 - 472. [in Russian]
  • Abdel-Shafy, S., El Namaky, A. H., Allam, N. A. T. & Hendawy, S. (2016) Scanning electron microscopy and morphometrics of nymph and larva of the tick Hyalomma rufipes Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae). Journal of Parasitic Diseases, 40, 1 - 10. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12639 - 014 - 0450 - 6
  • Apanaskevich, D. A. & Filippova, N. A. (2007) Larval identification of species and subspecies of the genus Hyalomma (Acari: Ixodidae) from Russia and neighbouring territories. Parazitologiya, 41, 268 - 283. [in Russian]
  • Sands, A. F., Apanaskevich, D. A., Matthee, S., Horak, I. G, Harrison, A., Karim, S., Mohammad, M. K., Mumcuoglu, K. Y., Rajakarua, R. S., Santos-Silva, M. M. & Matthee, C. (2017 b) Effects of tectonics and large scale climatic changes on the evolutionary history of Hyalomma ticks. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 114, 153 - 165. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2017.06.002