Rhipicentor nuttalli Cooper and Robinson, 1908

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 : 213

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.4582208

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4-FF3D-FF16-FF07-FAAA61F1CC4A

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scientific name

Rhipicentor nuttalli Cooper and Robinson, 1908
status

 

2. Rhipicentor nuttalli Cooper and Robinson, 1908 View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Carnivora (several families), but they have also been collected from Mammalia (several orders). Larvae and the undescribed nymph have been recovered from Macroscelidea : Macroscelididae . There are no records of Rhipicentor nuttalli causing human parasitism.

M: Cooper and Robinson (1908)

F: Neumann (1908a) , under the name Rhipicentor vicinus , a synonym of Rhipicentor nuttalli

N: undescribed

L: Theiler (1961); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Neumann (1908a) , under the name Rhipicentor vicinus, Theiler (1961) , Horak et al. (2018)

F: Theiler (1961), Horak et al. (2018)

L: none

Note: Bedford (1934) described the larva of Rhipicentor nuttalli , but Theiler (1961) did not recognize it. There are some obvious morphological differences between both descriptions, but Theiler (1961) described the larva from laboratory-reared material. The description of Bedford (1934) is excluded from the above list.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Rhipicentor

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