39. Rhipicephalus kohlsi (Hoogstraal and Kaiser, 1960). An Afrotropical and Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae, but they have been also collected from Artiodactyla: Camelidae and Cervidae, and Perissodactyla: Equidae. There are no records of Rhipicephalus kohlsi causing human parasitism. M: Hoogstraal and Kaiser (1960), under the name Boophilus kohlsi and given its current status in Horak et al. (2002) F: Hoogstraal and Kaiser (1960), under the name Boophilus kohlsi N: Hoogstraal and Kaiser (1960), under the name Boophilus kohlsi L: Köhler and Hoffmann (1967), under the name Boophilus kohlsi Redescriptions M: Hoogstraal et al. (1981), under the name Boophilus kohlsi F: Hoogstraal et al. (1981), under the name Boophilus kohlsi N: Hoogstraal et al. (1981), under the name Boophilus kohlsi L: none Note: Camicas et al. (1998) treat Rhipicephalus kohlsi (under the name Boophilus kohlsi) as a Palearctic species, but Guglielmone et al. (2014) state that it has also been found in the Afrotropical Region.

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