Rhipicephalus masseyi Nuttall and Warburton, 1908

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 : 229

47. Rhipicephalus masseyi Nuttall and Warburton, 1908 .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , but they have also been recovered from Artiodactyla : Suidae , Carnivora : Canidae , Felidae and Herpestidae , Perissodactyla : Equidae , and Tubulidentata : Orycteropodidae . There are no records of Rhipicephalus masseyi causing human parasitism.

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1908)

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1908)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Zumpt (1943 b, 1950), Santos Dias (1950a, under the name Rhipicephalus tendeiroi , a synonym of Rhipicephalus masseyi ), Elbl and Anastos (1966c), Walker et al. (2000)

F: Zumpt (1943b), Santos Dias (1950a, under the name Rhipicephalus tendeiroi ), Elbl and Anastos (1966c), Walker et al. (2000)

Note: Walker et al. (2000) discuss the considerable confusion attending identification of Rhipicephalus masseyi , chiefly due to misidentifications of the male, female and nymph in Theiler (1947). Camicas et al. (1998) list the nymph of Rhipicephalus masseyi as described, but Walker et al. (2000) also discuss this problem, concluding that this stage remains undescribed, a position with which we agree. See also Rhipicephalus maculatus for its confusion with the nymph of Rhipicephalus masseyi .