Rhipicephalus tricuspis D ö nitz, 1906

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 : 130-131

82. Rhipicephalus tricuspis D ö nitz, 1906 .

Afrotropical: 1) Angola, 2) Botswana, 3) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 4) Mozambique, 5) Namibia, 6) South Africa, 7) Zambia, 8) Zimbabwe ( Walker et al. 2000, Kolonin 2009, Horak et al. 2018, Sili et al. 2021).

Adults of Rhipicephalus tricuspis have been confused with Rhipicephalus interventus and Rhipicephalus lunulatus (Walker et al. 1998, 1995, 2000), while Horak et al. (2018) added that morphological separation of the larvae and nymphs of Rhipicephalus follis , Rhipicephalus gertrudae , Rhipicephalus simus and Rhipicephalus tricuspis is extremely difficult. Records published prior to the study of Walker et al. (1988) are not included in this analysis.

The presence of Rhipicephalus tricuspis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is based on Walker et al. (2000), who included two localities in the western part of that country where this tick has been collected.

ElGhali & Hassan (2012) continue to maintain that Rhipicephalus tricuspis is found in South Sudan, but there are no bona fide specimens of this tick from that country. Sylla et al. (2021) reported one collection of Rhipicephalus tricuspis from Senegal, but its presence there requires confirmation, and Senegal is provisionally excluded from the geographic distribution of Rhipicephalus tricuspis .