Rhipicephalus lunulatus Neumann, 1907b

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 122-123

47. Rhipicephalus lunulatus Neumann, 1907b .

Afrotropical: 1) Angola, 2) Benin, 3) Botswana, 4) Burkina Faso, 5) Burundi, 6) Cameroon, 7) Central African Republic, 8) Chad (south), 9) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 10) Eswatini, 11) Ethiopia, 12) Ghana, 13) Guinea, 14) Guinea- Bissau, 15) Ivory Coast, 16) Kenya, 17) Malawi, 18) Mali (south), 19) Mozambique, 20) Namibia, 21) Nigeria, 22) Rwanda, 23) Senegal. 24) Sierra Leone, 25) Somalia, 26) South Africa, 27) South Sudan, 28) Tanzania, 29) Togo, 30) Uganda, 31) Zambia, 32) Zimbabwe ( Walker et al. 1988, Gomes et al. 1994, Walker et al. 2000, Terenius et al. 2000, Ntiamoa-Baidu et al. 2004, Tomassone et al. 2004, Lorusso et al. 2013, Uilenberg et al. 2013, Horak et al. 2018, Ouedraogo et al. 2021 b, Sili et al. 2021, Sylla et al. 2021).

For many years, Rhipicephalus lunulatus was confused with Rhipicephalus tricuspis until Walker et al. (1988) definitively reinstated this species. Thereafter, Walker et al. (1995) described Rhipicephalus interventus , a tick with morphological characters that appear to be intermediate between those of Rhipicephalus lunulatus and Rhipicephalus tricuspis . Consequently, Walker et al. (2000) cautioned that several records of Rhipicephalus lunulatus may yet be confused with Rhipicephalus interventus or Rhipicephalus tricuspis . Records of this tick published prior to the study of Walker et al. (2000) were not included in this analysis.

Oddly, Kolonin (2009) presented a geographic distribution of Rhipicephalus lunulatus broader than that in Walker et al. (2000), while using references that are not unlike those in Walker et al. (2000).