Rhipicephalus kochi Dönitz, 1905

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

38. Rhipicephalus kochi Dönitz, 1905 .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae . All parasitic stages have been recovered from Bovidae , Macroscelidea : Macroscelididae , and Lagomorpha : Leporidae . Adults alone have been collected from Mammalia (several orders), and Otidiformes: Otididae ; adults and larvae have been taken from artiodactyls ( Suidae ); and nymphs alone have been found on Carnivora : Viverridae . Rhipicephalus kochi is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Dönitz (1905)

F: Dönitz (1905)

N: Clifford et al. (1983); see note below

L: Clifford et al. (1983); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Clifford et al. (1983), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018)

F: Clifford et al. (1983), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Walker et al. (2000); see note below

L: Walker et al. (2000); see note below

Note: Rhipicephalus kochi was confused with several species of Rhipicephalus until Clifford et al. (1983) redescribed the male and female and described the larva and nymph. Redescriptions of adults of Rhipicephalus kochi published prior to the study of Clifford et al. (1983) are excluded from the above lists, including the study of Hoogstraal (1956a), who referenced the descriptions of the larva and nymph of Rhipicephalus kochi as Rousselot (1953), but these alleged original descriptions of the immature stages of this species are not recognized by Clifford et al. (1983) or Walker et al. (2000).