Rhipicephalus decoloratus Koch, 1844a

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 220

20. Rhipicephalus decoloratus Koch, 1844a .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , with additional records from Mammalia (several orders) and rarely from Aves (several orders), Squamata : Pythonidae , and Testudines : Testudinidae . Rhipicephalus decoloratus is a rare parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1901) , under the name Rhipicephalus annulatus decoloratus

F: Koch (1844a)

N: Howard (1908), under the name Margaropus annulatus decoloratus

L: Howard (1908), under the name Margaropus annulatus decoloratus

Redescriptions

M: Salmon and Stiles (1901), Minning (1934), Hoogstraal (1956a), Arthur (1960a), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Gothe (1967), Arthur and Londt (1973), Heyne (1986) and Matthysse and Colbo (1987), all under the name Boophilus decoloratus, Walker A.R. et al. (2003) , Horak et al. (2018)

F: Koch (1847), Salmon and Stiles (1901), Minning (1934), Hoogstraal (1956a), Arthur (1960a), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Gothe (1967), Arthur and Londt (1973) and Matthysse and Colbo (1987), all under the name Boophilus decoloratus, Walker A.R. et al. (2003) , Horak et al. (2018)

N: Arthur (1960a), Gothe (1967) and Arthur and Londt (1973), all under the name Boophilus decoloratus .

L: Bedford (1934), Arthur (1960a), Gothe (1967) and Arthur and Londt (1973), all under the name Boophilus decoloratus

Note: several records of Rhipicephalus decoloratus outside the Afrotropics are treated as misidentifications in Guglielmone et al. (2003, 2014). There are some descriptions of Rhipicephalus decoloratus under the name Palpoboophilus decoloratus , as in Theiler (1943b), that are not included in the above lists.