60. Rhipicephalus pseudolongus Santos Dias, 1953a .

An Afrotropical species whose adults have been found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae; nymphs alone have been collected from Rodentia: Muridae; larvae alone have been recovered from Macroscelidea: Macroscelididae . There are no records of Rhipicephalus pseudolongus causing human parasitism.

M: Santos Dias (1953a), under the name Rhipicephalus capensis pseudolongus and given its current status in Santos Dias (1955a)

F: Santos Dias (1953a), under the name Rhipicephalus capensis pseudolongus

N: Clifford and Anastos (1964)

L: undescribed

Redescriptions

M: Clifford and Anastos (1962), Walker et al. (2000)

F: Clifford and Anastos (1962), Walker et al. (2000)

N: Walker et al. (2000)

Note: Guglielmone et al. (2009, 2014) treat Rhipicephalus pseudolongus as provisionally valid. Walker et al. (2000) stress the difficulties involved in morphologically separating this species from related taxa and propose a reexamination of the types of all species involved in this problem, especially Rhipicephalus cliffordi (not recognized in Walker et al. 2000), Rhipicephalus compositus, Rhipicephalus longus and Rhipicephalus pseudolongus, but also Rhipicephalus senegalensis . See Rhipicephalus senegalensis for a discussion of the difficulties attending morphological separation of that species from Rhipicephalus longus and Rhipicephalus pseudolongus .