1. Cosmiomma hippopotamensis (Denny, 1843) .

An Afrotropical species whose adults have been found on Artiodactyla: Hippopotamidae, and Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae . There are no records of Cosmiomma hippopotamensis causing human parasitism.

M: Denny (1843), under the name Ixodes hippopotamensis and given its current status in Schulze (1920)

F: Denny (1843), under the name Ixodes bimaculatus, a synonym of Cosmiomma hippopotamensis

N: Apanaskevich et al. (2013b)

L: Apanaskevich et al. (2013b)

Redescriptions

M: Arthur (1960a), Serrano (1964, under the name Cosmiomma hippopotamense), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Apanaskevich et al. (2013b), Horak et al. (2018)

F: Arthur (1960a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Apanaskevich et al. (2013b), Horak et al. (2018)

N: none

L: none

Note: there are also records and a few redescriptions of Cosmiomma hippopotamensis under the name Amblyomma hippopotamense, as in Neumann (1899), that are excluded from the above lists.

Genus Dermacentor