Rhipicephalus pumilio Schulze, 1935a

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 : 234

62. Rhipicephalus pumilio Schulze, 1935a .

A Palearctic species with a few records from the Oriental Zoogeographic Region, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae , Lagomorpha : Leporidae and Ochotonidae , and Rodentia : Cricetidae , Muridae and Sciuridae . Adults alone have been collected from Mammalia (several orders), Accipitriformes : Accipitridae , Galliformes : Phasianidae, Otidiformes : Otididae , and Passeriformes : Alaudidae ; nymphs and larvae have been recovered from Rodentia : Dipodidae , and Passeriformes : Corvidae , Muscicapidae and Sylviidae . Rhipicephalus pumilio is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Schulze (1935a)

F: Pomerantzev (1946)

N: Filippova (1981)

L: Filippova (1989)

Redescriptions

M: Pomerantzev (1950), Filippova and Panova (1983), Teng and Jiang (1991), Filippova (1997), Yu et al. (1997), Walker et al. (2000)

F: Pomerantzev (1950), Filippova (1981, 1997), Filippova and Panova (1983), Teng and Jiang (1991), Yu et al. (1997), Walker et al. (2000)

N: Filippova and Panova (1983), Teng and Jiang (1991), Filippova (1997), Walker et al. (2000)

L: Filippova and Panova (1983), Teng and Jiang (1991), Filippova (1997), Walker et al. (2000)

Note: Zahler et al. (1997) describe an identical DNA sequence in Rhipicephalus pumilio and Rhipicephalus rossicus and suggest that they may be conspecific. See also Rhipicephalus schulzei for its confusion with Rhipicephalus pumilio .