Rhipicephalus kochi D ö nitz, 1905

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, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 121

40. Rhipicephalus kochi D ö nitz, 1905 .

Afrotropical: 1) Angola, 2) Burundi, 3) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 4) Kenya, 5) Malawi, 6) Mozambique, 7) South Africa, 8) Tanzania, 9) Zambia, 10) Zimbabwe ( Clifford et al. 1983, Walker et al. 2000, Kolonin 2009, Horak et al. 2018, Sili et al. 2021).

Several records of Rhipicephalus kochi have been published under the name Rhipicephalus neavei , a synonym of Rhipicephalus kochi ( Walker et al. 2000) . Additionally, many diagnoses of Rhipicephalus kochi before the redescription of this species by Clifford et al. (1983) resulted from confusion with other Rhipicephalus species ( Keirans 1985 b, Walker et al. 2000), and these are not included in this analysis.

Burridge (2011) described a broader distribution of Rhipicephalus kochi than that provided here, but Walker et al. (2000) stated that records from outside the countries listed above ( Angola excepted) almost certainly represent species other than Rhipicephalus kochi , and this view is accepted here.

Farooqi et al. (2017) allegedly found Rhipicephalus kochi in Pakistan, but this is probably a misidentification.