Rhipicephalus tricuspis Dönitz, 1906

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 : 240

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scientific name	Rhipicephalus tricuspis Dönitz, 1906
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79. Rhipicephalus tricuspis Dönitz, 1906 View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species whose adults have been found on Mammalia (several orders). There are no records of Rhipicephalus tricuspis causing human parasitism.

M: Dönitz (1906)

F: Dönitz (1906)

N: Theiler (1947); see note below

L: Theiler (1947); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Dönitz (1910a), Theiler (1947), Sousa Dias (1950), Zumpt (1950), Walker et al. (1988, 2000), Horak et al. (2018)

F: Dönitz (1910a), Theiler (1947), Sousa Dias (1950), Walker et al. (1988, 2000), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Walker et al. (1988, 2000)

L: Walker et al. (1988, 2000)

Note: see Rhipicephalus gertrudae for a discussion of the difficulties attending morphological identification of the larvae and nymphs of Rhipicephalus follis , Rhipicephalus gertrudae , Rhipicephalus simus and Rhipicephalus tricuspis . Walker et al. (2000) and Horak et al. (2018) emphasize the difficulties involved in morphologically separating adults of Rhipicephalus lunulatus from those of Rhipicephalus tricuspis , and from adults of Rhipicephalus interventus , a species of morphologically intermediate characters. Walker et al. (1988) extensively discuss the taxonomic history of Rhipicephalus tricuspis and Rhipicephalus lunulatus but offer no opinion concerning the descriptions of the larva, nymph and adults of Rhipicephalus tricuspis by Theiler (1947), although they used the same specimens to redescribe this taxon. The descriptions and redescriptions of Rhipicephalus tricuspis by Theiler (1947) are treated as valid here, but other redescriptions, as in Elbl and Anastos (1966c), based on specimens collected in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, where this species does not occur according to Walker et al. (2000), are not included in the above lists. See also Rhipicephalus lunulatus .

References

Elbl, A. & Anastos, G. (1966 c) Ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) of Central Africa. Volume III. Genus Rhipicephalus Koch, 1844. Annales du Musee Royal de l' Afrique Centrale, Serie 8, Sciences Zoologique, 147, 1 - 555.

Donitz, W. (1906) Uber afrikanische Zecken. Sitzungsberichten der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 5, 143 - 148.

Donitz, W. (1910 a) Die Zecken Sudafrikas. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena, 16, 397 - 494.

Horak, I. G., Heyne, H., Williams, R., Gallivan, G. J., Spickett, A., Bezuidenhout, J. D. & Estrada-Pena, A. (2018) The ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of southern Africa. Springer, Cham, 676 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 70642 - 9

Sousa Dias, V. (1950) Subsidios para o estudo dos ixodideos de Angola. Pecuaria, 2,127 - 280.

Theiler, G. (1947) Ticks of the South African Zoological Survey Collection. Part VI. - Little known African rhipicephalids. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Industry, 21, 253 - 300.

Walker, J. B., Keirans, J. E., Pegram, R. G. & Clifford, C. M. (1988) Clarification of the status of Rhipicephalus tricuspis Donitz, 1906 and Rhipicephalus lunulatus Neumann, 1907 (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae). Systematic Parasitology, 12, 159 - 186. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00007766

Walker, J. B., Keirans, J. E. & Horak, I. G. (2000) The genus Rhipicephalus (Acari: Ixodidae): a guide to the brown ticks of the world. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 643 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / CBO 9780511661754

Zumpt, F. (1950) Preliminary study to a revision of the genus Rhipicephalus Koch. Key to the adult ticks of the genus Rhipicephalus and description of two new species. Mocambique, 60, 57 - 169. [this paper is usually cited as having been published in 1949]