Rhipicephalus interventus Walker, Pegram and Keirans, 1995

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36. Rhipicephalus interventus Walker, Pegram and Keirans, 1995 .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , but they have also been collected from Carnivora : Canidae . There are no records of Rhipicephalus interventus causing human parasitism.

M: Matthysse and Colbo (1987), under the name Rhipicephalus tricuspis , as explained in Walker et al. (1995)

F: Walker et al. (1995)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Walker et al. (1995, 2000)

F: Walker et al. (2000)

Note: Walker et al. (1995) asserted that specimens of Rhipicephalus interventus may be deposited in several tick collections under the names Rhipicephalus lunulatus or Rhipicephalus tricuspis .