Rhipicephalus oculatus

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 : 231-232

54. Rhipicephalus oculatus Neumann, 1901.

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Lagomorpha : Leporidae , but all parasitic stages have also been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae . Nymphs and larvae have been recovered from Galliformes : Numididae , and larvae alone have been taken from Rodentia : Pedetidae . There are no records of Rhipicephalus oculatus causing human parasitism.

M: Neumann (1901)

F: Neumann (1901)

N: Keirans et al. (1993b); see note below

L: Keirans et al. (1993b); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Keirans et al. (1993b), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018)

F: Keirans et al. (1993b), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Walker et al. (2000)

L: Walker et al. (2000)

Note: descriptions of the nymph and larva of Rhipicephalus oculatus , as in Howard (1908), were published prior to the study of Keirans et al. (1993b), but, according to the latter authors, the immature stages used by Howard (1908) for his descriptions represent a different species. Misidentifications also occur in several redescriptions of the male and female of Rhipicephalus oculatus , as in Zumpt (1942c, 1950) and Theiler and Salisbury (1953), among others. The species most often confused with Rhipicephalus oculatus was Rhipicephalus exophthalmos .