Rhipicephalus armatus Pocock, 1900

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 : 215

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4582212
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scientific name	Rhipicephalus armatus Pocock, 1900
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An Afrotropical species whose adults and nymphs have been found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , and Carnivora : Canidae and Felidae ; adults alone have been collected from Mammalia (several orders), while nymphs and larvae have been recovered from Lagomorpha : Leporidae . Rhipicephalus armatus is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Pocock (1900)

F: Pocock (1900)

N: Walker et al. (2000)

L: Walker et al. (2000)

Redescriptions

M: Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000)

F: Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000)

N: none

L: none

References

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

Pocock, R. I. (1900) On a collection of insects and arachnids made in 1895 and 1897, by Mr. C. V. A. Peel, F. Z. S., in Somaliland, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Part 1, 48 - 55.

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