Rhipicephalus aquatilis Walker, Keirans and Pegram, 1993

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 : 215

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4582210
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scientific name	Rhipicephalus aquatilis Walker, Keirans and Pegram, 1993
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3. Rhipicephalus aquatilis Walker, Keirans and Pegram, 1993 View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , but they have also been collected from Carnivora : Felidae . There are no records of Rhipicephalus aquatilis causing human parasitism.

M: Walker et al. (1993)

F: Walker et al. (1993)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Walker et al. (2000)

F: Walker et al. (2000)

References

Walker, J. B., Keirans, J. E. & Pegram, R. C. (1993) Rhipicephalus aquatilis sp. nov. (Acari: Ixodidae), a new tick species parasitic mainly on the sitatunga, Tragelaphus spekei. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 60, 205 - 210.

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

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Ixodida
Family	Ixodidae
Genus	Rhipicephalus

Specimens