Rhipicephalus humeralis Tonelli Rondelli, 1926a

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 : 224-225

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.4582365
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4-FF36-FF22-FF07-F8DD67CCC927
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Rhipicephalus humeralis Tonelli Rondelli, 1926a
status

Treatment

34. Rhipicephalus humeralis Tonelli Rondelli, 1926a View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species whose adults have been found on Mammalia (several orders), and Accipitriformes : Accipitridae . Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Tonelli Rondelli (1926a), under the name Rhipicephalus pulchellus humeralis and given its current status in Zumpt (1950)

F: Walker (1957)

N: Walker (1957)

L: Walker (1957)

Redescriptions

M: Zumpt (1950), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000)

F: Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000)

N: Walker et al. (2000)

L: Walker et al. (2000)

Note: Walker (1957) and Walker et al. (2000) state that it can be difficult to morphologically separate females and nymphs of Rhipicephalus humeralis from those of Rhipicephalus pulchellus , but the larvae of these species are even more difficult to distinguish from each other.