Rhipicephalus exophthalmos Keirans & Walker, 1993

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27. Rhipicephalus exophthalmos Keirans & Walker, 1993

in Keirans et al. (1993).

Afrotropical: 1) Botswana, 2) Namibia, 3) South Africa ( Walker et al. 2000, Kolonin 2009).

Rhipicephalus exophthalmos was widely confused with Rhipicephalus oculatus , or named Rhipicephalus sp. near oculatus , prior to its description in Keirans et al. (1993).

Walker et al. (2000) listed a single locality in Botswana where Rhipicephalus exophthalmos had been collected, but that locality was not recognized by Horak et al. (2018). We provisionally include Botswana within the range of Rhipicephalus exophthalmos .

The presence of Rhipicephalus exophthalmos in Angola is suspected, but records from that country were still classified as Rhipicephalus sp. near oculatus in Walker et al. (2000), and no additional records from Angola have since been found. Consequently, Angola is not included within the range of this tick.