Rhipicentor bicornis Nuttall and Warburton, 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

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scientific name	Rhipicentor bicornis Nuttall and Warburton, 1908
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1. Rhipicentor bicornis Nuttall and Warburton, 1908 View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Carnivora : Canidae , Felidae and Viverridae , but they have also been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , and Perissodactyla : Equidae . There are no records of Rhipicentor bicornis causing human parasitism.

M: Nuttall and Warburton (1908)

F: Nuttall and Warburton (1908)

N: unknown

L: Theiler (1961); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Dönitz (1910a), Theiler (1961), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Horak et al. (2018)

F: Dönitz (1910a), Theiler (1961), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Horak et al. (2018)

L: none

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) list the larva of Rhipicentor bicornis as undescribed, but it was described before 1998, as cited above.

References

Elbl, A. & Anastos, G. (1966 d) Ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) of Central Africa. Volume IV. Genera Aponomma Neumann, 1899, Boophilus Curtice, 1891, Dermacentor Koch, 1844, Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844. Hyalomma, Koch, 1844 and Rhipicentor Nuttall and Warburton, 1908. Lists and bibliography. Annales du Musee Royal de l' Afrique Centrale, Serie 8, Sciences Zoologique, 148, 1 - 412.

Camicas, J. L., Hervy, J. P., Adam, F. & Morel, P. C. (1998) Les tiques du monde. Nomenclature, stades decrits, hotes, repartition (Acarida, Ixodida). Orstom, Paris, 233 pp.

Donitz, W. (1910 a) Die Zecken Sudafrikas. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena, 16, 397 - 494.

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

Nuttall, G. H. F. & Warburton, C. (1908) On a new genus of Ixodoidea together with a description of eleven new species. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 14, 392 - 416.

Theiler, G. (1961) A contribution to the knowledge of African Ixodidae. The genus Rhipicentor. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 64, 297 - 308. [the volume for this paper is often erroneously cited as volume 66]