Rhipicephalus pusillus Gill Collado 1936
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64. Rhipicephalus pusillus Gill Collado, 1936.
A Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Lagomorpha: Leporidae, but they have also been collected from Carnivora: Mustelidae. Adults and nymphs have been recovered from Mammalia (several orders); adults alone have been taken from Accipitriformes: Accipitridae and Strigiformes: Strigidae; nymphs and larvae have been recorded from Rodentia: Gliridae. Rhipicephalus pusillus is a rare parasite of humans.
M: Gil Collado (1936), under the name Rhipicephalus bursa pusillus and given its current status in Gil Collado (1938)
F: Gil Collado (1936), under the name Rhipicephalus bursa pusillus
N: Morel and Vassiliades (1963)
L: Morel and Vassiliades (1963)
Redescriptions
M: Zumpt (1942c, 1950), Morel and Vassiliades (1963), Walker et al. (2000), Pérez-Eid (2007), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017, 2018)
F: Zumpt (1942c), Morel and Vassiliades (1963), Walker et al. (2000), Pérez-Eid (2007), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017, 2018)
N: Walker et al. (2000), Pérez-Eid (2007), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017, 2018)
L: Pérez-Eid (2007), Estrada-Peña et al. (2017, 2018)
Note: the record of two specimens of Rhipicephalus pusillus in Cameroon (Afrotropical Region) by Silatsa et al. (2019) requires confirmation.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gill Collado
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Ixodida
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Rhipicephalus
- Species
- pusillus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhipicephalus pusillus Collado, 1936 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020
References
- Gil Collado, J. (1936) Acaros ixodoideos de Cataluna y Baleares. Treballs del Museu de Ciencies Naturals de Barcelona, Serie Entomologica, 11, 1 - 8.
- Gil Collado, J. (1938) Los acaros (ixodoideos) de Espana. Broteria, Ciencias Naturais, 7, 99 - 109.
- Morel, P. C. & Vassiliades, G. (1963) Les Rhipicephalus du groupe sanguineus: especes Africaines (Acariens: Ixodoidea). Revue d'Elevage et de Medecine Veterinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 15, 343 - 386. https: // doi. org / 10.19182 / remvt. 7132
- Zumpt, F. (1942 c) Zur Kenntnis der afrikanischer Rhipicephalusarten. V. Vorstudie zu einer Revision der Gattung Rhipicephalus Koch. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde, 12, 479 - 500. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 02121659
- Zumpt, F. (1950) Preliminary study to a revision of the genus Rhipicephalus Koch. Key to the adult ticks of the genus Rhipicephalus and description of two new species. Mocambique, 60, 57 - 169. [this paper is usually cited as having been published in 1949]
- 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
- Perez-Eid, C. (2007) Les tiques. Identification, biologie, importance medicale et veterinaire. Editions Tec & Doc, Paris, 314 pp.
- 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
- Silatsa, B. A., Simo, G., Githaka, N., Mwaura, S., Kamga, R. M., Oumarou, F., Bishop, R. P., Djikeng, A., Kuiate, J. L., Njiokou, F. & Pelle, R. (2019) A comprehensive survey of the prevalence and spatial distribution of ticks infesting cattle in different agro-ecological zones of Cameroon. Parasites & Vectors, 12 (article 489), 1 - 14. https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / s 13071 - 019 - 3738 - 7