Rhipicephalus pulchellus ( Gerstäcker, 1873 )

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 : 234

61. Rhipicephalus pulchellus ( Gerstäcker, 1873) .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , but they have also been collected from Mammalia (several orders). Adults alone have rarely been recovered from Galliformes : Phasianidae , and Struthioniformes : Struthionidae . Rhipicephalus pulchellus is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Gerstäcker (1873), under the name Dermacentor pulchellus and given its current status in Neumann (1897)

F: Neumann (1897)

N: Walker (1955)

L: Walker (1955)

Redescriptions

M: Neumann (1897) , Cunliffe (1913), Theiler and Robinson (1953), Walker (1955), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000), Walker, A.R. et al. (2003)

F: Cunliffe (1913), Theiler and Robinson (1953), Walker (1955), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000), Walker, A.R. et al. (2003)

N: Walker et al. (2000)

L: Walker et al. (2000)

Note: see Rhipicephalus humeralis for its confusion with Rhipicephalus pulchellus .