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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4582252

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4-FF32-FF19-FF07-FC2D610ACD33

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Rhipicephalus decoloratus Koch, 1844a
status

 

20. Rhipicephalus decoloratus Koch, 1844a View in CoL .

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Rhipicephalus

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