34. Dermacentor rhinocerinus (Denny, 1843). An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Peris-sodactyla: Rhinocerotidae; larvae and nymphs have been collected from Rodentia: Muridae.Adults alone have been recovered from Mammalia (several orders), with a rare record from Squamata: Varanidae. Dermacentor rhinocerinus is a very rare parasite of humans. M: Denny (1843) F: Neumann (1897) N: Clifford and Anastos (1964) L: Keirans (1993) Redescriptions M: Dönitz (1910a), Hoogstraal (1956a), Arthur (1960a), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Keirans (1993), Horak et al. (2018) F: Dönitz (1910a), Hoogstraal (1956a), Arthur (1960a), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Keirans (1993), Horak et al. (2018) N: Keirans (1993) L: none Note: see Amblyomma rhinocerotis for its confusion with Dermacentor rhinocerinus.

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 pages 144-145, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340