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Rhipicephalus pulchellus

Description

63. Rhipicephalus pulchellus (Gerstäcker, 1873).

Afrotropical: 1) Djibouti, 2) Eritrea, 3) Ethiopia, 4) Kenya, 5) Somalia, 6) Tanzania, 7) Uganda (Yeoman & Walker 1967, Walker 1974, Morel 1980, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Iori et al. 1996, Walker et al. 2000, Lynen et al. 2007, Kolonin 2009, Byaruhanga et al. 2021, Olivieri et al. 2021).

The female, nymph and larva of Rhipicephalus pulchellus are morphologically close to the corresponding stages of Rhipicephalus humeralis, but the males of these species are easily separated morphologically (Walker et al. 2000).

Burridge (2011) listed Sudan within the natural range of Rhipicephalus pulchellus, but its presence there was not confirmed during this analysis. Okely et al. (2021, 2022) listed records of this tick from Egypt but stated that it is a non-endemic tick. Egypt is therefore not included within the range of Rhipicephalus pulchellus.

Notes

Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, pp. 1-274 in Zootaxa 5251 (1) on page 127, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7704190

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03966A560F15C715BABF8AA1B19AFD01

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1 (DOI)
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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, Nava & Robbins, 2023

References

  • Gerstacker, A. (1873) Gliderthiere (Insekten, Arachniden, Myriapoden und Isopoden) In: O. Kersten (Editor), 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, 542 pp.
  • Yeoman, G. H. & Walker, J. B. (1967) The ixodid ticks of Tanzania. A study of the zoogeography of the Ixodidae of an East African country. Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London, 215 pp.
  • Walker, J. B. (1974) The ixodid ticks of Kenya. A review of present knowledge of their hosts and distribution. Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London, 220 pp.
  • Morel, P. C. (1980) Study on Ethiopian ticks. Institut de l'Elevage et de Medecine Veterinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Paris, 332 pp.
  • Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.
  • Iori, A., Lanfranchi, P. & Manilla, G. (1996) Contribution to the knowledge of Ixodidae ticks of wild mammals of Somalia. Parassitologia, 38, 571 - 573.
  • 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
  • Lynen, G., Zeman, P., Bakuname, C., Di Giulio, G., Mtui, P., Sanka, P. & Jongejan, F. (2007) Cattle ticks of the genera Rhipicephalus and Amblyomma of economic importance in Tanzania: distribution assessed with GIS based on an extensive field survey. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 43, 303 - 319. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10493 - 007 - 9123 - 9
  • Kolonin, G. V. (2009) Fauna of ixodid ticks of the world. https: // archive. is / CtZk. Last accessed February 11, 2022.
  • Byaruhanga, C., Akure, P. C., Lubembe, D. M., Sibeko-Matjila, K., Troskie, M., Oosthuizen, M. C. & Stoltsz, H. (2021) Molecular detection and characterisation of protozoan and rickettsial pathogens in ticks from cattle in the pastoral area of Karamoja, Uganda. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 12 (4) (article 101709), 1 - 11. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ttbdis. 2021.101709
  • Olivieri, E., Kariuki, E., Floriano, A. M., Castelli, M., Tafesse, Y. M., Magoga, G., Kumsa, B., Montagna, B. & Sassera, D. (2021) Multi-country investigation of the diversity and associated microorganisms isolated from tick species from domestic animals, wildlife and vegetation in selected African countries. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 83, 427 - 448. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10493 - 021 - 00598 - 3
  • Burridge, M. J. (2011) Non-Native and Invasive Ticks. Threats to Human and Animal Health in the United States. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 448 pp.
  • Okely, M., Anan, R., Gad-Allah, S. & Samy, A. M. (2021) Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) infesting domestic animals in Egypt: diagnostic characters and a taxonomic key to the collected species. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 35, 333 - 351. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / mve. 12502
  • Okely, M., Chen, Z., Anan, R. & Gad-Allah, S. (2022) Updated checklist of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of Egypt, with notes of livestock host and tick-borne pathogens. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 27, 811 - 838. https: // doi. org / 10.11158 / saa. 27.5.1