Rhipicephalus kohlsi ( Hoogstraal and Kaiser, 1960 )

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 : 226

39. Rhipicephalus kohlsi ( Hoogstraal and Kaiser, 1960) .

An Afrotropical and Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , but they have been also collected from Artiodactyla : Camelidae and Cervidae , and Perissodactyla : Equidae . There are no records of Rhipicephalus kohlsi causing human parasitism.

M: Hoogstraal and Kaiser (1960), under the name Boophilus kohlsi and given its current status in Horak et al. (2002)

F: Hoogstraal and Kaiser (1960), under the name Boophilus kohlsi

N: Hoogstraal and Kaiser (1960), under the name Boophilus kohlsi

L: Köhler and Hoffmann (1967), under the name Boophilus kohlsi

Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal et al. (1981), under the name Boophilus kohlsi

F: Hoogstraal et al. (1981), under the name Boophilus kohlsi

N: Hoogstraal et al. (1981), under the name Boophilus kohlsi

L: none

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) treat Rhipicephalus kohlsi (under the name Boophilus kohlsi ) as a Palearctic species, but Guglielmone et al. (2014) state that it has also been found in the Afrotropical Region.