61. Rhipicephalus pulchellus (Gerstäcker, 1873). An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae, but they have also been collected from Mammalia (several orders). Adults alone have rarely been recovered from Galliformes: Phasianidae, and Struthioniformes: Struthionidae. Rhipicephalus pulchellus is a sporadic parasite of humans. M: Gerstäcker (1873), under the name Dermacentor pulchellus and given its current status in Neumann (1897) F: Neumann (1897) N: Walker (1955) L: Walker (1955) Redescriptions M: Neumann (1897), Cunliffe (1913), Theiler and Robinson (1953), Walker (1955), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000), Walker, A.R. et al. (2003) F: Cunliffe (1913), Theiler and Robinson (1953), Walker (1955), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Walker et al. (2000), Walker, A.R. et al. (2003) N: Walker et al. (2000) L: Walker et al. (2000) Note: see Rhipicephalus humeralis for its confusion with Rhipicephalus pulchellus.

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