13. Rhipicephalus capensis Koch, 1844a. An Afrotropical species whose adults have been found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Carnivora: Canidae and Felidae, and Perissodactyla: Equidae; nymphs alone have been collected from Rodentia: Muridae. There are no records of Rhipicephalus capensis causing human parasitism. M: Koch (1844a) F: Feldman-Muhsam (1960) N: Walker et al. (2000) L: Walker et al. (2000) Redescriptions M: Koch (1847), Feldman-Muhsam (1960), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018) F: Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018) N: none L: none Note: there are a number of confusing descriptions of the female of Rhipicephalus capensis, as discussed by Feldman-Muhsam (1960), and we treat the description of the female in Feldman-Muhsam (1960), who used laboratory-reared material, as the first for this species. Walker et al. (2000) stated that adults of Rhipicephalus capensis, Rhipicephalus follis and Rhipicephalus gertrudae have been confused with each other; therefore, many earlier redescriptions of Rhipicephalus capensis have not been included in the lists above.

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-322 in Zootaxa 4871 (1) on page 218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340