Rhipicephalus pulchellus ( Gerstäcker, 1873 )

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 : 127

63. Rhipicephalus pulchellus ( Gerstäcker, 1873) .

Afrotropical: 1) Djibouti, 2) Eritrea, 3) Ethiopia, 4) Kenya, 5) Somalia, 6) Tanzania, 7) Uganda ( Yeoman & Walker 1967, Walker 1974, Morel 1980, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Iori et al. 1996, Walker et al. 2000, Lynen et al. 2007, Kolonin 2009, Byaruhanga et al. 2021, Olivieri et al. 2021).

The female, nymph and larva of Rhipicephalus pulchellus are morphologically close to the corresponding stages of Rhipicephalus humeralis , but the males of these species are easily separated morphologically ( Walker et al. 2000).

Burridge (2011) listed Sudan within the natural range of Rhipicephalus pulchellus , but its presence there was not confirmed during this analysis. Okely et al. (2021, 2022) listed records of this tick from Egypt but stated that it is a non-endemic tick. Egypt is therefore not included within the range of Rhipicephalus pulchellus .