Rhipicephalus lunulatus Neumann, 1907b

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 : 228

45. Rhipicephalus lunulatus Neumann, 1907b .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae . Adults and larvae have been collected from Bovidae ; adults alone have been recovered from Mammalia (several orders), and rarely from Anseriformes : Anatidae , and Gruiformes : Rallidae ; nymphs alone have been collected from Macroscelidea : Macroscelididae , Lagomorpha : Leporidae , and Rodentia : Muridae ; larvae have been recovered from Bovidae . Rhipicephalus lunulatus is a rare parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1907b)

F: Neumann (1908b) , under the name Rhipicephalus attenuatus , a synonym of Rhipicephalus lunulatus

N: Saratsiotis (1977); see note below

L: Saratsiotis (1977); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Zumpt (1943a, 1950), Walker et al. (1988, 2000), Walker, A.R. et al. (2003), Horak et al. (2018)

F: Zumpt (1943a, 1950), Walker et al. (1988, 2000), Walker, A.R. et al. (2003), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Walker et al. (1988, 2000)

L: Walker et al. (1988, 2000)

Note: Walker et al. (2000) stated that difficulties attend the morphological differentiation of Rhipicephalus lunulatus and Rhipicephalus tricuspis , as well as Rhipicephalus interventus , a species that is morphologically intermediate between these two species. Consequently, some redescriptions of Rhipicephalus lunulatus published prior to Walker et al. (1998) are not included in the above lists. The descriptions of the larva and nymph of Rhipicephalus lunulatus in Saratsiotis (1977) are not recognized in Walker et al. (1988, 2000), but we have found no reason to consider those descriptions invalid.