Rhipicephalus decoloratus 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 : 220

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scientific name	Rhipicephalus decoloratus Koch, 1844a
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An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , with additional records from Mammalia (several orders) and rarely from Aves (several orders), Squamata : Pythonidae , and Testudines : Testudinidae . Rhipicephalus decoloratus is a rare parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1901) , under the name Rhipicephalus annulatus decoloratus

F: Koch (1844a)

N: Howard (1908), under the name Margaropus annulatus decoloratus

L: Howard (1908), under the name Margaropus annulatus decoloratus

Redescriptions

M: Salmon and Stiles (1901), Minning (1934), Hoogstraal (1956a), Arthur (1960a), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Gothe (1967), Arthur and Londt (1973), Heyne (1986) and Matthysse and Colbo (1987), all under the name Boophilus decoloratus, Walker A.R. et al. (2003) , Horak et al. (2018)

F: Koch (1847), Salmon and Stiles (1901), Minning (1934), Hoogstraal (1956a), Arthur (1960a), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Gothe (1967), Arthur and Londt (1973) and Matthysse and Colbo (1987), all under the name Boophilus decoloratus, Walker A.R. et al. (2003) , Horak et al. (2018)

N: Arthur (1960a), Gothe (1967) and Arthur and Londt (1973), all under the name Boophilus decoloratus .

L: Bedford (1934), Arthur (1960a), Gothe (1967) and Arthur and Londt (1973), all under the name Boophilus decoloratus

Note: several records of Rhipicephalus decoloratus outside the Afrotropics are treated as misidentifications in Guglielmone et al. (2003, 2014). There are some descriptions of Rhipicephalus decoloratus under the name Palpoboophilus decoloratus , as in Theiler (1943b), that are not included in the above lists.

References

Elbl, A. & Anastos, G. (1966 d) Ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) of Central Africa. Volume IV. Genera Aponomma Neumann, 1899, Boophilus Curtice, 1891, Dermacentor Koch, 1844, Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844. Hyalomma, Koch, 1844 and Rhipicentor Nuttall and Warburton, 1908. Lists and bibliography. Annales du Musee Royal de l' Afrique Centrale, Serie 8, Sciences Zoologique, 148, 1 - 412.

Arthur, D. R. (1960 a) Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part V. On the genera Dermacentor, Anocentor, Cosmiomma & Margaropus. Cambridge University Press, London, 251 pp.

Arthur, D. R. & Londt, J. G. H. (1973) The parasitic cycle of Boophilus decoloratus (Koch 1844) (Acarina: Ixodidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 36, 87 - 116.

Bedford, G. A. H. (1934) South African ticks. Part I. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Industry, 2, 49 - 99.

Gothe, R. (1967) Ticks in the South African zoological survey collection. Part XII - The genera Boophilus Curtice, 1891 and Margaropus Karsch, 1879. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Science, 34, 81 - 108.

Guglielmone, A. A., Estrada-Pena, A., Keirans, J. E. & Robbins, R. G. (2003) Ticks (Acari: Ixodida) of the Neotropical Zoogeographic Region. Special Publication of the Integrated Consortium on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases- 2. Integrated Consortium on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, Atalanta, Houten, 173 pp.

Heyne, E. (1986) Differentiation of Boophilus decoloratus and Boophilus microplus. Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, 57, 251 - 252.

Hoogstraal, H. (1956 a) African Ixodoidea. I. Ticks of the Sudan (with special reference to Equatoria Province and with preliminary reviews of the genera Boophilus, Margaropus and Hyalomma). Research Report NM 005 050.29. 07. Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington D. C., 1101 pp.

Horak, I. G., Heyne, H., Williams, R., Gallivan, G. J., Spickett, A., Bezuidenhout, J. D. & Estrada-Pena, A. (2018) The ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of southern Africa. Springer, Cham, 676 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 70642 - 9

Howard, C. W. (1908) A list of the ticks of South Africa, with descriptions and keys to all the forms known. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 1, 73 - 169. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 84612

Koch, C. L. (1844 a) Systematische Ubersicht uber die Ordnung der Zecken. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 10, 217 - 239. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 29560

Koch, C. L. (1847) s. n. Ubersicht des Arachnidensystems, Nurnberg, 4, 1 - 136.

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

Minning, W. (1934) Beitrage zur Systematik und Morphologie der Zeckengattung Boophilus Curtice. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde, 7, 1 - 43. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 02125654

Neumann, L. G. (1901) Revision de la famille des ixodides (4 e memoire). Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 14, 249 - 372.

Salmon, D. E. & Stiles, C. W. (1901) The cattle ticks (Ixodoidea) of the United States. Report of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, 17, 380 - 491. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 84613

Theiler, G. (1943 b) Notes on the ticks of domestic stock from Portuguese East Africa. Estacao Antimalaria, Lourenco Marques, 55 pp.