54. Rhipicephalus oculatus Neumann, 1901 .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Lagomorpha: Leporidae, but all parasitic stages have also been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae . Nymphs and larvae have been recovered from Galliformes: Numididae, and larvae alone have been taken from Rodentia: Pedetidae . There are no records of Rhipicephalus oculatus causing human parasitism.

M: Neumann (1901)

F: Neumann (1901)

N: Keirans et al. (1993b); see note below

L: Keirans et al. (1993b); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Keirans et al. (1993b), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018)

F: Keirans et al. (1993b), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Walker et al. (2000)

L: Walker et al. (2000)

Note: descriptions of the nymph and larva of Rhipicephalus oculatus, as in Howard (1908), were published prior to the study of Keirans et al. (1993b), but, according to the latter authors, the immature stages used by Howard (1908) for his descriptions represent a different species. Misidentifications also occur in several redescriptions of the male and female of Rhipicephalus oculatus, as in Zumpt (1942c, 1950) and Theiler and Salisbury (1953), among others. The species most often confused with Rhipicephalus oculatus was Rhipicephalus exophthalmos .