Rhipicephalus bequaerti Zumpt, 1950

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 : 216

8. Rhipicephalus bequaerti Zumpt, 1950 (usually cited as published in 1949).

An Afrotropical species whose adults have been found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Suidae . Rhipicephalus bequaerti is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Zumpt (1950)

F: Zumpt (1950)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966c), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000); see note below

F: Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966c), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000); see note below

Note: Walker et al. (2000) appear to accept as valid the redescriptions of Rhipicephalus bequaerti in Elbl and Anastos (1966c) , but there are differences between the redescriptions in these publications, and the specimens used by Elbl and Anastos (1966c) are notably smaller than those used by Walker et al. (2000) to redescribe Rhipicephalus bequaerti . Moreover, Elbl and Anastos (1966c) stated that coxae II and III of the male of Rhipicephalus bequaerti each have one external spur, but the accompanying figure shows two spurs on these coxae. The description in Zumpt (1950) and the redescriptions in Hoogstraal (1956a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987) and Walker et al. (2000) fail to clarify the coxal spurring in Rhipicephalus bequaerti . It would be worthwhile to redescribe in detail the male and female types of Rhipicephalus bequaerti in order to facilitate a proper identification of this species.