Rhipicephalus cliffordi Morel, 1965e

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 : 218-219

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
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scientific name	Rhipicephalus cliffordi Morel, 1965e
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15. Rhipicephalus cliffordi Morel, 1965e View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species whose adults have been found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Suidae . There are no records of Rhipicephalus cliffordi causing human parasitism.

M: Morel (1965e)

F: Morel (1965e)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

Note: Rhipicephalus cliffordi is treated as a synonym of Rhipicephalus pseudolongus in Walker et al. (2000) and Kolonin (2009). See also Rhipicephalus pseudolongus for a discussion of the difficulties involved in separating that species from related taxa, including Rhipicephalus cliffordi .

References

Kolonin, G. V. (2009) Fauna of ixodid ticks of the world. https: // archive. is / CtZk (accessed 26 February 2019)

Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.

Morel, P. C. (1965 e) Description de Rhipicephalus cliffordi n. sp. d'Afrique occidentale (groupe de Rh. compositus; Acariens, Ixodoidea). Revue d'Elevage et de Medecine Veterinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 17, 637 - 654. https: // doi. org / 10.19182 / remvt. 7305

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