53. Rhipicephalus nitens Neumann, 1904. An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae, and Lagomorpha: Leporidae. Adults and larvae have been collected from Carnivora: Canidae; adults alone have been recovered from Perissodactyla: Equidae, while larvae alone have been taken from Galliformes: Numididae. There are no records of Rhipicephalus nitens causing human parasitism. M: Neumann (1904) F: Neumann (1904) N: Walker et al. (2000) L: Walker et al. (2000) Redescriptions M: Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018) F: Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018) N: none L: none

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