59. Rhipicephalus pravus Dönitz, 1910a. An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae, but they have also been recorded from Mammalia (several orders), Accipitriformes: Accipitridae, Passeriformes: Laniidae, and Struthioniformes: Struthionidae. All parasitic stages have been recovered from Lagomorpha: Leporidae; adults and nymphs have been collected from Bovidae, Carnivora: Viverridae, and Macroscelidea: Macroscelididae; nymphs alone have been found on Otidiformes: Otididae. Rhipicephalus pravus is a sporadic parasite of humans. M: Dönitz (1910a) F: Dönitz (1910a) N: Walker (1956), but see note below L: Walker (1956), but see note below Redescriptions M: Zumpt (1942d), Walker (1956), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018), but see note below F: Zumpt (1942d), Walker (1956), Walker et al. (2000), Horak et al. (2018), but see note below N: Walker et al. (2000) L: Walker et al. (2000) Note: there are descriptions of the larva and nymph of Rhipicephalus pravus in Theiler and Robinson (1953) that are not accepted in Walker et al. (2000), who also questioned the redescriptions of male and female ticks by other authors; all such redescriptions have been omitted from the above lists. Walker et al. (2000) and Horak et al. (2018) found ticks that strongly match their definition of Rhipicephalus pravus sensu stricto but decided that they belong to a different species, naming their specimens Rhipicephalus sp. near pravus, a statement that underscores the problems accompanying the definition of this tick. Horak et al. (2018) found that Rhipicephalus near pravus in South Africa is actually Rhipicephalus warburtoni, but this finding does not necessarily apply to Rhipicephalus near pravus from other countries in southern Africa.

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