Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides, Supino, 1897

Type host: the holotype specimen was collected from vegetation haemaphysaloides Supino, 1897 View in CoL , Rhipicephalus

Supino, F. (1897) Nuovi Ixodes della Birmania (nota preventive). Atti della Società Veneto-Trentina di Scienze Naturali Residente in Padova, Serie 2, 3, 230–238.

See haemaphysaloides niger Supino, 1897, Rhipicephalus

Comments: Walker et al. (2000) stated that syntypes of Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides are in the GM (page 28), but also in the BMNH (page 27–28) based on three samples discussed in Keirans (1985), who listed two collections of Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides ruber (containing a male and a female) and another of a male of Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides without subspecific status, as held in the BMNH, naming them as syntypes of Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides . Keirans (1985) and Walker et al. (2000) based their decision to consider as syntypes of Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides those specimens deposited in the BMNH on Neumann (1897), but this is in error because Neumann (1897, page 418) treated Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides ruber as a synonym of Rhipicephalus ruber , while considering Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides niger as the original name of Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides (1897, page 417). Additionally, Neumann (1897) translated, with modifications, the original description of the female of Rhipicephalus haemaphysalodes niger under the name Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides , confirming Yado as the type locality for this species, as stated in Supino (1897), and not “Mt. Muleyit, Meteleo also at Thagata, Juva & N.E. of Bomo, Burma,” as stated in Keirans (1985) for the alleged syntypes of Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides . This error is repeated in Keirans & Hillyard (2001).