Rhipicephalus compositus Neumann, 1897

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 : 219

17. Rhipicephalus compositus Neumann, 1897 .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , but they have also been collected from Artiodactyla : Suidae , Perissodactyla : Equidae and Rhinocerotidae , Carnivora : Felidae and Canidae , and Proboscidea : Elephantidae ; larvae and nymphs have been recovered from Rodentia : Muridae ( Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Kariuki et al. 2019). Rhipicephalus compositus is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1897)

F: Neumann (1905) , under the name Rhipicephalus capensis compositus

N: Theiler et al. (1956), under the name Rhipicephalus ayrei , a synonym of Rhipicephalus compositus

L: Theiler et al. (1956), under the name Rhipicephalus ayrei

Redescriptions

M: Lewis (1933) and Theiler et al. (1956), both under the name Rhipicephalus ayrei, Hoogstraal (1956a) , Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000)

F: Lewis (1933) and Theiler et al. (1956), both under the name Rhipicephalus ayrei, Hoogstraal (1956a) , Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000)

N: Walker et al. (2000)

L: Walker et al. (2000)

Note: the redescriptions of the male and female of Rhipicephalus compositus in Elbl and Anastos (1966c) differ in several respects from those in Walker et al. (2000) and other authors and are therefore not included in the lists above. Moreover, the Elbl and Anastos (1966c) illustration of the dorsal surface of the female basis capituli of Rhipicephalus compositus lacks porose areas. See also Rhipicephalus pseudolongus for a discussion of the difficulties involved in separating that species from related taxa, including Rhipicephalus compositus .