Published March 7, 2023 | Version v1
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Rhipicephalus supertritus Neumann 1907

Description

79. Rhipicephalus supertritus Neumann, 1907b.

Afrotropical: 1) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2) Eritrea, 3) Ethiopia, 4) Malawi, 5) Mozambique, 6) Rwanda, 7) South Sudan, 8) Tanzania, 9) Uganda, 10) Zambia, 11) Zimbabwe (Yeoman & Walker 1967, Norval 1985 b, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Tandon 1991, Walker et al. 2000, Kolonin 2009, ElGhali & Hassan 2012).

Rhipicephalus supertritus has been confused with several species, such as Rhipicephalus bergeoni, Rhipicephalus compositus, Rhipicephalus longus and Rhipicephalus simus (Walker et al. 2000), and Guglielmone et al. (2020) treated redescriptions of Rhipicephalus supertritus as provisional. Among the several authors who have studied this tick, there are also stated differences in the geographic distribution of Rhipicephalus supertritus. The range of Rhipicephalus supertritus provided here accords with information published by Walker et al. (2000) and Kolonin (2009), but again, these data should be considered provisional.

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 130, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7704190

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References

  • Neumann, L. G. (1907 b) Notes sur les Ixodides. V. Archives de Parasitologie, 11, 215 - 232.
  • 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.
  • Norval, R. A. I. (1985 b) The ticks of Zimbabwe. XII. The lesser known Rhipicephalus species. Zimbabwe Veterinary Journal, 16, 37 - 43.
  • Walker, J. B. & Olwage, A. (1987) The tick vectors of Cowdria ruminantium (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae, genus Amblyomma) and their distribution. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 54, 353 - 379.
  • Tandon, S. K. (1991) The ixodid ticks of Zambia (Acarina: Ixodidae). A study of distribution, ecology and host relationships. Occasional Paper of the Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 134, 1 - 175.
  • 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
  • Kolonin, G. V. (2009) Fauna of ixodid ticks of the world. https: // archive. is / CtZk. Last accessed February 11, 2022.
  • ElGhali, A. & Hassan, S. M. (2012) Ticks infesting animals in the Sudan and southern Sudan: past and current status: research communication. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 79, 1 - 6. https: // doi. org / 10.4102 / ojvr. v 79 i 1.431
  • Guglielmone, A. A., Petney, T. N. & Robbins, R. G. (2020) Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019. Zootaxa, 4871, 1 - 322. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4871.1.1