Rhipicephalus hurti Wilson, 1954

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36. Rhipicephalus hurti Wilson, 1954 .

Afrotropical: 1) Burundi, 2) Kenya, 3) Rwanda, 4) Tanzania, 5) Uganda ( Yeoman & Walker 1967, Walker 1974, Keirans 1985 b, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Walker et al. 2000, Lynen et al. 2007, Kolonin 2009).

Rhipicephalus hurti has been confused with several congeners ( Keirans 1985 b, Walker et al. 2000), and its separation from Rhipicephalus jeanneli is sometimes extremely difficult due to morphological variation ( Walker et al. 2000), with the result that several published diagnoses appear as Rhipicephalus hurti / Rhipicephalus jeanneli . The last-named authors stated that there is a need for further studies of Rhipicephalus hurti and related species.

Walker et al. (2020) regarded records of Rhipicephalus hurti from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe as unconfirmed. Here, these countries are not included within the range of Rhipicephalus hurti , but the territories currently thought to contain populations of this tick are provisionally included, despite taxonomic uncertainties.