Rhipicephalus camicasi Morel, Mouchet & Rodhain, 1976

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 : 115-116

13. Rhipicephalus camicasi Morel, Mouchet & Rodhain, 1976 .

Afrotropical: 1) Djibouti, 2) Ethiopia, 3) Kenya, 4) Oman, 5) Saudi Arabia (south), 6) Somalia, 7) Sudan, 8) Yemen; Palearctic: 1) Egypt, 2) Jordan, 3) Lebanon, 4) Saudi Arabia (north) ( Morel 1980, Pegram et al. 1987c, 1989, Saliba et al. 1990, Wassef et al. 1997, Walker et al. 2000, ElGhali & Hassan 2012, Harrison et al. 2015, Estrada-Peña et al. 2017, Springer et al. 2020, Olivieri et al. 2021, Perveen et al. 2021).

Morel (1980) stressed the difficulties involved in morphologically separating Rhipicephalus camicasi from Rhipicephalus bergeoni , Rhipicephalus guilhoni and Rhipicephalus sulcatus , while Chitimia-Dobler et al. (2017b) suggested that Rhipicephalus camicasi is a synonym of Rhipicephalus guilhoni . Chandra et al. (2022) emphasized the need for a revision of Rhipicephalus camicasi because more than one species may be included under this name; consequently, the range of this tick should be considered provisional.

The supposed presence of Rhipicephalus camicasi in Zambia ( Kobayashi et al. 2021) requires confirmation, and that country is provisionally excluded from the range of this tick.