Rhipicephalus simpsoni Nuttall, 1910

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 : 237-238

73. Rhipicephalus simpsoni Nuttall, 1910 .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Rodentia : Thryonomyidae ; adults and nymphs have been collected from Rodentia : Hystricidae , while adult ticks have been recovered from Mammalia (several orders). There are no records of Rhipicephalus simpsoni causing human parasitism.

M: Nuttall (1910)

F: Nuttall (1910)

N: Clifford and Anastos (1964); see note below

L: Walker et al. (2000)

Redescriptions

M: Theiler (1947), Clifford and Anastos (1962), Elbl and Anastos (1966c), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018)

F: Theiler (1947), Clifford and Anastos (1962), Elbl and Anastos (1966c), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Walker et al. (2000)

L: none

Note: Santos Dias (1951b) described the nymph and redescribed the male and female of Rhipicephalus simpsoni . However, the nymph in Santos Dias (1951b) differs morphologically from the nymphs of Rhipicephalus simpsoni in Clifford and Anastos (1964) and Walker et al. (2000) with respect to the spurring of coxae II-III, and we therefore have provisionally excluded the description and redescriptions of Rhipicephalus simpsoni in Santos Dias (1951b) from the above lists.