Rhipicephalus tetracornus Kitaoka and Suzuki, 1983

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 : 239

77. Rhipicephalus tetracornus Kitaoka and Suzuki, 1983 .

An Oriental species whose larvae and nymphs have been found on Rodentia : Muridae ; larvae alone have been collected from Rodentia : Cricetidae , and Soricomorpha : Soricidae . There are no records of Rhipicephalus tetracornus causing human parasitism.

M: Kitaoka and Suzuki (1983)

F: Kitaoka and Suzuki (1983)

N: Kitaoka and Suzuki (1983)

L: Kitaoka and Suzuki (1983); see note below

Redescriptions: none

Note: Kitaoka and Suzuki (1983) state that it is not absolutely certain that the larva described by them represents Rhipicephalus tetracornus . Kolonin (2009) does not include this species in his list of the Ixodidae of the world, and Walker et al. (2000) treat Rhipicephalus tetracornus as incertae sedis. However, Guglielmone et al. (2009, 2010, 2014, 2015) and Guglielmone and Nava (2014) found no clear reason to declare Rhipicephalus tetracornus invalid.