Rhipicephalus distinctus Bedford, 1932

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 : 221

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scientific name	Rhipicephalus distinctus Bedford, 1932
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An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Hyracoidea : Procaviidae , but all parasitic stages have also been collected from Lagomorpha : Leporidae , and Carnivora : Felidae ; immature stages have been recovered from Rodentia : Muridae , Nesomyidae and Pedetidae , Macroscelidea : Macroscelididae , and Carnivora : Herpestidae . Rhipicephalus distinctus is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Bedford (1929), under the name Rhipicephalus punctatus and given its current name in Bedford (1932)

F: Bedford (1929), under the name Rhipicephalus punctatus

N: Theiler (1947)

L: Walker et al. (2000)

Redescriptions

M: Zumpt (1943a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018)

F: Zumpt (1943a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Walker et al. (2000)

L: none

Bedford, G. A. H. (1929) Notes on some South African ticks, with descriptions of three new species. 15 th Annual Report of the Director of Veterinary Services, Department of Agriculture, Union of South Africa, 1929, 493 - 499.

Bedford, G. A. H. (1932) A synoptic check-list and host-list of the ectoparasites found on South Africa Mammalia, Aves and Reptilia. 18 th Annual Report of the Director of Veterinary Services and Animal Industry, Union of South Africa, 1932, 223 - 523.

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

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

Theiler, G. (1947) Ticks of the South African Zoological Survey Collection. Part VI. - Little known African rhipicephalids. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Industry, 21, 253 - 300.

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

Zumpt, F. (1943 a) Rhipicephalus simus Koch und verwandte Arten. VII. Vorstudie zu einer Revision der Gattung Rhipicephalus Koch. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde, 13, 1 - 24. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 02121764