Rhipicephalus capensis Koch, 1844a

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

13. Rhipicephalus capensis Koch, 1844a .

An Afrotropical species whose adults have been found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Carnivora : Canidae and Felidae , and Perissodactyla : Equidae ; nymphs alone have been collected from Rodentia : Muridae . There are no records of Rhipicephalus capensis causing human parasitism.

M: Koch (1844a)

F: Feldman-Muhsam (1960)

N: Walker et al. (2000)

L: Walker et al. (2000)

Redescriptions

M: Koch (1847), Feldman-Muhsam (1960), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018)

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

N: none

L: none

Note: there are a number of confusing descriptions of the female of Rhipicephalus capensis , as discussed by Feldman-Muhsam (1960), and we treat the description of the female in Feldman-Muhsam (1960), who used laboratory-reared material, as the first for this species. Walker et al. (2000) stated that adults of Rhipicephalus capensis , Rhipicephalus follis and Rhipicephalus gertrudae have been confused with each other; therefore, many earlier redescriptions of Rhipicephalus capensis have not been included in the lists above.