Rhipicephalus glabroscutatus Du Toit, 1941

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 : 223-224

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4582357
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scientific name	Rhipicephalus glabroscutatus Du Toit, 1941
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An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , but they have also been collected from Lagomorpha : Leporidae , Perissodactyla : Equidae , and rarely from Hyracoidea : Procaviidae . Nymphs and larvae have been recovered from Carnivora : Canidae and Felidae , Rodentia : Pedetidae , and Galliformes : Numididae , while larvae alone have been found on Rodentia : Muridae . Rhipicephalus glabroscutatus is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Du Toit (1941), under the name Rhipicephalus glabroscutatum , and amended in Morel (1969)

F: Du Toit (1941), under the name Rhipicephalus glabroscutatum

N: Du Toit (1941), under the name Rhipicephalus glabroscutatum

L: Du Toit (1941), under the name Rhipicephalus glabroscutatum

Redescriptions

M: Walker et al. (2000), under the name Rhipicephalus glabroscutatum, Horak et al. (2018) F: Walker et al. (2000), under the name Rhipicephalus glabroscutatum, Horak et al. (2018) N: Walker et al. (2000), under the name Rhipicephalus glabroscutatum

L: Walker et al. (2000), under the name Rhipicephalus glabroscutatum

Du Toit, R. (1941) Description of a tick Rhipicephalus glabroscutatum [sic], sp. nov., (Ixodidae) from the Karroo areas of the Union of South Africa. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Industry, 16, 115 - 118.

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

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