27. Rhipicephalus follis Dönitz, 1910a. An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae, while larvae and nymphs are commonly recovered from Rodentia: Muridae. Adults and larvae have been collected from Carnivora: Canidae; adults alone have been taken from Artiodactyla: Bovidae and Suidae, Hyracoidea: Procaviidae, Perissodactyla: Equidae and Rhinocerotidae, and Carnivora: Felidae; nymphs and larvae have been found on Rodentia: Muridae. Rhipicephalus follis is a rare parasite of humans M: Dönitz (1910a) F: Walker et al. (2000); see note below N: Walker et al. (2000); see note below L: Walker et al. (2000); see note below Redescriptions M: Theiler (1947), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018) F: Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018) N: Walker et al. (2000) L: Walker et al. (2000) Note: Theiler and Robinson (1953) allegedly redescribed the male and described the female, nymph and larva of Rhipicephalus follis, but all four of these descriptions actually apply to another species, Rhipicephalus lounsburyi, as explained in Walker (1990). See also Rhipicephalus capensis and Rhipicephalus gertrudae for a discussion of the difficulties involved in morphologically separating these taxa from related species, including Rhipicephalus follis.

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 222, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340