Rhipicephalus pulchellus
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Description
61. Rhipicephalus pulchellus (Gerstäcker, 1873).
An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae, but they have also been collected from Mammalia (several orders). Adults alone have rarely been recovered from Galliformes: Phasianidae, and Struthioniformes: Struthionidae. Rhipicephalus pulchellus is a sporadic parasite of humans.
M: Gerstäcker (1873), under the name Dermacentor pulchellus and given its current status in Neumann (1897)
F: Neumann (1897)
N: Walker (1955)
L: Walker (1955)
Redescriptions
M: Neumann (1897), Cunliffe (1913), Theiler and Robinson (1953), Walker (1955), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000), Walker, A.R. et al. (2003)
F: Cunliffe (1913), Theiler and Robinson (1953), Walker (1955), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000), Walker, A.R. et al. (2003)
N: Walker et al. (2000)
L: Walker et al. (2000)
Note: see Rhipicephalus humeralis for its confusion with Rhipicephalus pulchellus.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gerstacker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Ixodida
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Rhipicephalus
- Species
- pulchellus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhipicephalus pulchellus (Gerstacker, 1873) sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020
References
- Gerstacker, A. (1873) Gliderthiere (Insekten, Arachniden, Myriapoden und Isopoden) In: Kersten, O. (Ed.), Baron Carl Claus von der Decken's Reisen in Ost Africa in den Jahre 1859 bis 1865. 3, Wissenschaftlicher Theil. C. J. Winter'sche Verlaghandlung, Leipzig und Heidelberg, pp. 1 - 542.
- Neumann, L. G. (1897) Revision de la famille des ixodides (2 e memoire). Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 10, 324 - 420.
- Walker, J. B. (1955) Rhipicephalus pulchellus Gerstacker 1873: a description of the larva and nymph with notes on the adults and on its biology. Parasitology, 45, 95 - 98. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000027463
- Cunliffe, N. (1913) The variability of Rhipicephalus pulchellus (Gerstacker, 1873). Parasitology, 6, 204 - 216. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000003048
- Theiler, G. & Robinson, B. N. (1953) Ticks in the South African Zoological Survey Collection. Part VII. Six lesser known African rhipicephalids. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 26, 93 - 136.
- Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.
- 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 / CBO 9780511661754