Rhipicephalus bequaerti Zumpt, 1950

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 : 216

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scientific name	Rhipicephalus bequaerti Zumpt, 1950
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8. Rhipicephalus bequaerti Zumpt, 1950 (usually cited as published in 1949). An Afrotropical species whose adults have been found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Suidae . Rhipicephalus bequaerti is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Zumpt (1950)

F: Zumpt (1950)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966c), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000); see note below

F: Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966c), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000); see note below

Note: Walker et al. (2000) appear to accept as valid the redescriptions of Rhipicephalus bequaerti in Elbl and Anastos (1966c) , but there are differences between the redescriptions in these publications, and the specimens used by Elbl and Anastos (1966c) are notably smaller than those used by Walker et al. (2000) to redescribe Rhipicephalus bequaerti . Moreover, Elbl and Anastos (1966c) stated that coxae II and III of the male of Rhipicephalus bequaerti each have one external spur, but the accompanying figure shows two spurs on these coxae. The description in Zumpt (1950) and the redescriptions in Hoogstraal (1956a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987) and Walker et al. (2000) fail to clarify the coxal spurring in Rhipicephalus bequaerti . It would be worthwhile to redescribe in detail the male and female types of Rhipicephalus bequaerti in order to facilitate a proper identification of this species.

References

Elbl, A. & Anastos, G. (1966 c) Ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) of Central Africa. Volume III. Genus Rhipicephalus Koch, 1844. Annales du Musee Royal de l' Afrique Centrale, Serie 8, Sciences Zoologique, 147, 1 - 555.

Hoogstraal, H. (1956 a) African Ixodoidea. I. Ticks of the Sudan (with special reference to Equatoria Province and with preliminary reviews of the genera Boophilus, Margaropus and Hyalomma). Research Report NM 005 050.29. 07. Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington D. C., 1101 pp.

Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.

Walker, J. B., Keirans, J. E. & Horak, I. G. (2000) The genus Rhipicephalus (Acari: Ixodidae): a guide to the brown ticks of the world. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 643 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / CBO 9780511661754

Zumpt, F. (1950) Preliminary study to a revision of the genus Rhipicephalus Koch. Key to the adult ticks of the genus Rhipicephalus and description of two new species. Mocambique, 60, 57 - 169. [this paper is usually cited as having been published in 1949]