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

1. Rhipicentor bicornis Nuttall and Warburton, 1908 .

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.