Rhipicephalus australis Fuller, 1899

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

7. Rhipicephalus australis Fuller, 1899 .

An Australasian and Oriental species also present on Pacific islands, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , but there are also records from Mammalia (several orders). Rhipicephalus australis is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Fuller (1899)

F: Fuller (1899)

N: Roberts (1965), under the name Boophilus microplus

L: Clifford et al. (1961), under the name Boophilus microplus ; see note below

Redescriptions

M: Roberts (1965, 1970), under the name Boophilus microplus, Estrada-Peña et al. (2012) , Barker and Walker (2014), Barker et al. (2014)

F: Roberts (1965, 1970), under the name Boophilus microplus, Estrada-Peña et al. (2012) , Barker and Walker (2014), Barker et al. (2014)

N: Roberts (1970), under the name Boophilus microplus

L: Roberts (1965, 1969), under the name Boophilus microplus, Estrada-Peña et al. (2012)

Note: Clifford et al. (1961) used Australian material to describe the larva of Rhipicephalus microplus in the USA, under the name Boophilus microplus ; in doing so, they inadvertently described the larva of Rhipicephalus australis . There are several redescriptions of Rhipicephalus australis under the genera Boophilus and Margaropus , e.g., Salmon and Stiles (1901) and Hooker et al. (1912), among others, but these authors used specimens collected outside the range of this species and their redescriptions are excluded from the above lists.